Lesotho | Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort)
Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. 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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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
Kingdom of Lesotho
Records
63
Source
Lesotho | Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
41.26512146 1970
56.16529846 1971
61.69805145 1972
73.35111237 1973
54.99617004 1974
52.18508911 1975
50.37279129 1976
51.99518967 1977
52.3961792 1978
55.10131073 1979
59.98070908 1980
65.28340149 1981
59.29576874 1982
58.00381851 1983
65.9954834 1984
60.11307144 1985
67.39324951 1986
66.91001129 1987
59.63827896 1988
65.78933716 1989
70.72254944 1990
66.41893005 1991
60.5694809 1992
79.50209045 1993
75.30510712 1994
63.13093185 1995
68.3747406 1996
73.16829681 1997
68.75028229 1998
74.56195068 1999
67.15982056 2000
72.81613159 2001
77.02803802 2002
63.42284012 2003
73.37332153 2004
74.30950165 2005
62.16772842 2006
80.41126251 2007
72.0044632 2008
80.47627258 2009
75.35043335 2010
76.4353714 2011
69.08068848 2012
79.56118011 2013
77.3252182 2014
83.70481873 2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Lesotho | Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort)
Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. 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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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
Kingdom of Lesotho
Records
63
Source