Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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
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Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries)
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Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
1960
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1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 48.14966965
1971 47.41860962
1972 47.61336136
1973 46.7253685
1974 46.37213898
1975 49.29180908
1976 55.16994858
1977 54.3751297
1978 54.27756882
1979 53.86943817
1980 52.85499954
1981 56.13499832
1982 59.63977814
1983 60.63280869
1984 56.6385498
1985 58.8050499
1986 61.26567078
1987 61.30635834
1988 63.15642929
1989 64.13372803
1990 67.04981995
1991 69.53278351
1992 68.20192719
1993 70.69550323
1994 71.8554306
1995 74.17822266
1996 74.64824677
1997 75.75428009
1998 76.92095947
1999 78.03338623
2000 77.55549622
2001 80.43778992
2002 79.8340683
2003 80.51133728
2004 80.91699219
2005 81.52185822
2006 82.74069977
2007 82.26139832
2008 84.29438782
2009 84.45765686
2010 84.62242126
2011 84.09784698
2012 83.72530365
2013 85.23403168
2014 86.08123016
2015 85.3511734
2016 86.73596954
2017 86.6043396
2018 87.04026031
2019 86.92185974
2020 87.6629715
2021 87.85276031
2022

Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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 & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source