Middle East & North Africa | 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
Middle East & North Africa
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63
Source
Middle East & North Africa | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
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1967
1968
1969
1970 76.9536438
1971 76.88036346
1972 77.88510132
1973 78.31080627
1974 79.22553253
1975 80.43901825
1976 80.06562042
1977 80.46591187
1978 79.94403839
1979 80.89028168
1980 81.54106903
1981 82.29960632
1982 82.36328125
1983 83.83667755
1984 84.67977142
1985 85.41651917
1986 85.3258667
1987 86.10266876
1988 84.85112762
1989 86.54741669
1990 87.07672119
1991 86.38559723
1992 86.52233887
1993 86.37329102
1994 86.33130646
1995 86.56902313
1996 86.53440094
1997 86.01191711
1998 86.19609833
1999 86.59783936
2000 86.75292206
2001 85.51696777
2002 84.56761169
2003 84.48017883
2004 83.10682678
2005 83.03838348
2006 84.30756378
2007 85.04270172
2008 85.61277771
2009 86.67407227
2010 87.45646667
2011 87.04324341
2012 83.01244354
2013 82.23375702
2014 81.94461823
2015 83.09992981
2016 83.64479828
2017 84.35662079
2018 85.39089966
2019 86.31429291
2020 86.44062042
2021 88.14933014
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Middle East & North Africa | 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
Middle East & North Africa
Records
63
Source