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)
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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
1970 40.06470871
1971 39.50960922
1972 39.41238022
1973 39.55308914
1974 40.37565994
1975 41.33181
1976 42.19977951
1977 43.35448837
1978 44.43008041
1979 45.46524048
1980 46.13037872
1981 47.13862991
1982 48.27679825
1983 49.51016998
1984 50.8301506
1985 52.06867981
1986 53.37903976
1987 60.8297081
1988 61.08227158
1989 60.72039032
1990 60.49655151
1991 60.19049072
1992 59.95970154
1993 59.74589157
1994 59.55183029
1995 60.24674988
1996 60.95080948
1997 61.63097
1998 62.09495163
1999 62.99845886
2000 60.92161179
2001 62.92897034
2002 64.26306152
2003 65.59779358
2004 66.82585907
2005 67.91472626
2006 69.11289215
2007 70.23747253
2008 71.16261292
2009 72.48345947
2010 72.49603271
2011 74.63858032
2012 75.96485138
2013 79.36907196
2014 87.58825684
2015 85.5921402
2016 83.18721771
2017 82.04730988
2018 80.75119019
2019 89.0087738
2020 89.22866058
2021 90.69262695
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