Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% 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)
Records
63
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Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
1963
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1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 46.4656105
1971 46.13602829
1972 46.62741089
1973 45.85110092
1974 45.63314056
1975 48.46195984
1976 54.68555832
1977 53.59854889
1978 53.55450058
1979 52.9487381
1980 51.64860916
1981 55.10919189
1982 58.97457886
1983 60.02410889
1984 55.36898041
1985 57.71839905
1986 60.07413101
1987 60.41588974
1988 62.24008942
1989 63.18082047
1990 65.64452362
1991 68.54412079
1992 67.45201111
1993 69.99102783
1994 71.03839874
1995 73.34633636
1996 73.71645355
1997 74.82440948
1998 76.05782318
1999 77.15441895
2000 76.66780853
2001 79.70588684
2002 79.51689148
2003 79.86991119
2004 80.31188965
2005 80.8510437
2006 81.71185303
2007 82.0644989
2008 83.64137268
2009 83.73686218
2010 83.73668671
2011 83.14013672
2012 82.58963776
2013 84.54953003
2014 85.48094177
2015 85.16015625
2016 86.67926788
2017 86.52771759
2018 86.98095703
2019 86.83509827
2020 87.64260101
2021 87.82791138
2022

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