South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
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South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 36.32920837
1971 35.63800812
1972 35.62586975
1973 35.72787857
1974 36.72813034
1975 37.94100952
1976 38.88446045
1977 40.25183868
1978 41.4371109
1979 42.63022995
1980 43.2455101
1981 44.57291031
1982 46.11936188
1983 47.51057053
1984 49.07913971
1985 50.61220932
1986 52.32249832
1987 58.6699791
1988 58.86669922
1989 58.52299881
1990 58.33044815
1991 58.03638077
1992 57.8223114
1993 57.66257858
1994 57.54019165
1995 58.51554871
1996 59.4934082
1997 60.43260956
1998 61.18104935
1999 62.42435074
2000 61.32928848
2001 65.18041229
2002 66.29721069
2003 67.41635132
2004 68.64978027
2005 69.46154022
2006 70.35463715
2007 71.15801239
2008 71.77204895
2009 73.22624207
2010 73.31333923
2011 75.4475174
2012 76.34214783
2013 79.04698944
2014 87.92783356
2015 86.39257813
2016 82.79631042
2017 82.00154877
2018 82.54064178
2019 91.15666962
2020 90.98142242
2021 92.20912933
2022

South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
Source