Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary is the percentage of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach the last grade of primary education. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method. Development relevance: The cohort survival rate measures an education system's holding power and internal efficiency. Rates approaching 100 percent indicate high retention and low dropout levels. Limitations and exceptions: The estimates have limitations in capturing real trend in that an observed rate will be applied to the underlying indicators such as repetition rate and promotion rate throughout the cohort life, and re-entrants, grade skipping, migration or transfers during a school year are not adequately captured. Statistical concept and methodology: Cohort survival rate is calculated by dividing the total number of children belonging to a cohort who reached each successive grade of the specified level of education by the number of children in the same cohort; those originally enrolled in the first grade of primary education, and multiplying by 100. To reflect current patterns of grade transition, it is calculated based on the reconstructed cohort method, which uses data on enrollment by grade for the two most recent years and data on repeaters by grade for the most recent of those two years. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
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The World Bank
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Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
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63
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Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)
1960
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1965
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1967
1968
1969
1970 47.05318069
1971 47.4794693
1972 48.1661911
1973 47.1957283
1974 47.00186157
1975 49.7252388
1976 57.56047821
1977 56.24419022
1978 55.94168091
1979 55.4971199
1980 54.03236008
1981 57.56657028
1982 61.47946167
1983 62.50711823
1984 58.13647842
1985 59.89588928
1986 62.02542877
1987 62.86223984
1988 64.6240921
1989 65.54511261
1990 67.96961975
1991 70.83188629
1992 69.43334961
1993 71.76908112
1994 73.49662781
1995 75.90531158
1996 76.43544769
1997 77.60605621
1998 79.08924103
1999 79.34616852
2000 78.95281982
2001 81.86280823
2002 81.63703156
2003 82.0855484
2004 82.44058228
2005 83.1655426
2006 84.13407135
2007 84.20497131
2008 85.60549164
2009 85.56253815
2010 85.51911163
2011 84.93679047
2012 84.2767868
2013 86.59123993
2014 87.42594147
2015 87.4118576
2016 88.19332123
2017 88.28864288
2018 88.80834198
2019 88.58152771
2020 89.2197876
2021 89.50984192
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Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary is the percentage of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach the last grade of primary education. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method. Development relevance: The cohort survival rate measures an education system's holding power and internal efficiency. Rates approaching 100 percent indicate high retention and low dropout levels. Limitations and exceptions: The estimates have limitations in capturing real trend in that an observed rate will be applied to the underlying indicators such as repetition rate and promotion rate throughout the cohort life, and re-entrants, grade skipping, migration or transfers during a school year are not adequately captured. Statistical concept and methodology: Cohort survival rate is calculated by dividing the total number of children belonging to a cohort who reached each successive grade of the specified level of education by the number of children in the same cohort; those originally enrolled in the first grade of primary education, and multiplying by 100. To reflect current patterns of grade transition, it is calculated based on the reconstructed cohort method, which uses data on enrollment by grade for the two most recent years and data on repeaters by grade for the most recent of those two years. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
Records
63
Source