Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% 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
Origin
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, male (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
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1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 45.91181183
1971 44.87319946
1972 45.17803955
1973 44.58432007
1974 44.3600502
1975 47.28722
1976 51.99005127
1977 51.13502884
1978 51.33922958
1979 50.58076096
1980 49.4389801
1981 52.83456039
1982 56.66310883
1983 57.73315811
1984 52.8214798
1985 55.70705032
1986 58.26942062
1987 58.15647888
1988 60.03485107
1989 60.98519897
1990 63.50558853
1991 66.40933228
1992 65.62477112
1993 68.36327362
1994 68.78495026
1995 70.99886322
1996 71.22007751
1997 72.26709747
1998 73.26590729
1999 75.12953186
2000 74.55355072
2001 77.70294189
2002 77.5475235
2003 77.79842377
2004 78.48813629
2005 78.67536926
2006 79.42722321
2007 80.04416656
2008 81.79077148
2009 82.01609039
2010 82.05403137
2011 81.44464874
2012 80.99414063
2013 82.62016296
2014 83.63774872
2015 83.02718353
2016 85.24176788
2017 84.853302
2018 85.24105835
2019 85.16873932
2020 86.13156891
2021 86.21685791
2022

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