South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
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South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
40.06470871 1970
39.50960922 1971
39.41238022 1972
39.55308914 1973
40.37565994 1974
41.33181 1975
42.19977951 1976
43.35448837 1977
44.43008041 1978
45.46524048 1979
46.13037872 1980
47.13862991 1981
48.27679825 1982
49.51016998 1983
50.8301506 1984
52.06867981 1985
53.37903976 1986
60.8297081 1987
61.08227158 1988
60.72039032 1989
60.49655151 1990
60.19049072 1991
59.95970154 1992
59.74589157 1993
59.55183029 1994
60.24674988 1995
60.95080948 1996
61.63097 1997
62.09495163 1998
62.99845886 1999
60.92161179 2000
62.92897034 2001
64.26306152 2002
65.59779358 2003
66.82585907 2004
67.91472626 2005
69.11289215 2006
70.23747253 2007
71.16261292 2008
72.48345947 2009
72.49603271 2010
74.63858032 2011
75.96485138 2012
79.36907196 2013
87.58825684 2014
85.5921402 2015
83.18721771 2016
82.04730988 2017
80.75119019 2018
89.0087738 2019
89.22866058 2020
90.69262695 2021
2022
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
Source