Lower middle 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
Lower middle income
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63
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Lower middle income | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
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1969
1970 49.86682129
1971 49.35596085
1972 49.09540176
1973 49.72510147
1974 50.68281174
1975 51.31285095
1976 51.84156036
1977 53.28746033
1978 53.89125824
1979 55.03131866
1980 55.32125854
1981 56.24053955
1982 56.89113998
1983 57.57017899
1984 58.32365036
1985 59.48226929
1986 61.15359116
1987 65.8013916
1988 66.06201935
1989 66.18768311
1990 66.28199768
1991 66.08444214
1992 66.05529022
1993 65.96186066
1994 65.78817749
1995 66.26364899
1996 66.71238708
1997 67.05059052
1998 67.74700928
1999 68.18639374
2000 67.08677673
2001 69.0027771
2002 68.78868103
2003 69.28639221
2004 69.77601624
2005 70.61995697
2006 69.8379364
2007 70.54309082
2008 73.19052124
2009 73.81501007
2010 73.73665619
2011 75.29950714
2012 75.97783661
2013 78.10077667
2014 83.193367
2015 82.35394287
2016 80.8782196
2017 80.44476318
2018 80.13533783
2019 84.64170074
2020 84.50299072
2021 85.75753784
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Lower middle 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source