Least developed countries: UN classification | 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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Least developed countries: UN classification
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Least developed countries: UN classification | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)
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37.74744034 1972
39.40589905 1973
41.48503876 1974
41.89810944 1975
42.48709869 1976
44.24871063 1977
42.91569901 1978
42.76810837 1979
41.72671127 1980
41.65855026 1981
44.42578125 1982
44.64403152 1983
45.42004013 1984
48.03358078 1985
49.16072083 1986
49.67774963 1987
50.30210114 1988
50.72373962 1989
51.67522049 1990
51.38301086 1991
53.00688934 1992
52.16981125 1993
52.05398178 1994
52.83805084 1995
52.3458519 1996
52.77288818 1997
52.7344017 1998
54.78868103 1999
56.52124023 2000
58.38211823 2001
57.86555862 2002
56.70378113 2003
58.02949905 2004
58.19277954 2005
58.18576813 2006
57.78718948 2007
56.55630875 2008
55.3928299 2009
54.52196884 2010
56.1314888 2011
54.96376038 2012
55.51700974 2013
56.36513901 2014
57.75856018 2015
57.71102905 2016
58.49940109 2017
59.03887939 2018
59.44594955 2019
60.31483078 2020
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Least developed countries: UN classification | 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
Least developed countries: UN classification
Records
63
Source