World | 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).
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World | Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971 67.81089783
1972 67.41062927
1973 66.59979248
1974 66.57901001
1975 67.62509918
1976 68.5501709
1977 69.97180176
1978 69.54248047
1979 69.66602325
1980 69.25891113
1981 69.56887817
1982 70.07803345
1983 70.39347839
1984 70.28439331
1985 70.92649078
1986 71.89671326
1987 73.2954483
1988 73.32289886
1989 73.39478302
1990 74.63652802
1991 74.8392334
1992 75.08515167
1993 75.67965698
1994 75.97306061
1995 76.89019775
1996 76.93073273
1997 77.17005157
1998 77.20321655
1999 77.18775177
2000 77.10180664
2001 78.63539124
2002 77.82527161
2003 77.31230164
2004 77.4151001
2005 77.86274719
2006 77.46795654
2007 77.28585052
2008 78.75473022
2009 78.71204376
2010 78.47354126
2011 79.45761871
2012 78.79460907
2013 79.70081329
2014 82.4826889
2015 82.60707092
2016 81.82598877
2017 82.21125793
2018 82.63272095
2019 84.85112762
2020 84.86621857
2021 85.39129639
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World | 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
World
Records
63
Source