Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort) - Country Ranking

Definition: Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 China 100.00 2019
2 Japan 99.97 2016
3 United Kingdom 99.92 2018
4 Denmark 99.88 2018
5 Finland 99.88 2018
6 Macao SAR, China 99.88 2019
7 Italy 99.77 2018
8 Slovenia 99.74 2018
9 Chile 99.74 2018
10 Spain 99.73 2018
11 Poland 99.68 2018
12 Sweden 99.62 2018
13 Greece 99.60 2018
14 Norway 99.59 2018
15 Czech Republic 99.51 2018
16 Hong Kong SAR, China 99.48 2019
17 Israel 99.46 2018
18 Singapore 99.41 2018
19 Korea 99.36 2018
20 Uruguay 99.36 2015
21 Switzerland 99.36 2018
22 Portugal 99.25 2018
23 Estonia 99.23 2018
24 Indonesia 99.07 2017
25 North Macedonia 99.07 2017
26 Egypt 99.04 2018
27 Iceland 98.97 2018
28 Brunei 98.86 2019
29 Andorra 98.76 2016
30 Georgia 98.75 2019
31 Ireland 98.63 1994
32 Cyprus 98.51 2016
33 Canada 98.34 1999
34 Bolivia 98.34 2018
35 Montenegro 98.33 2019
36 Iran 98.30 2016
37 Oman 98.29 2016
38 San Marino 98.10 2019
39 Ecuador 97.95 2019
40 Mongolia 97.92 2018
41 Sri Lanka 97.90 2018
42 Mauritius 97.72 2018
43 St. Kitts and Nevis 97.70 2014
44 Barbados 97.70 2010
45 Thailand 97.60 2017
46 Mexico 97.50 2018
47 Latvia 97.17 2018
48 Philippines 97.16 2018
49 Malta 97.13 2018
50 Seychelles 97.11 2017
51 Bahrain 96.98 2018
52 Eswatini 96.61 2018
53 Tunisia 96.55 2016
54 Luxembourg 96.50 2016
55 Liechtenstein 96.43 2017
56 Morocco 96.22 2019
57 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 96.17 2017
58 Belgium 96.08 2018
59 Belize 96.03 2019
60 Cuba 95.99 2019
61 Botswana 95.15 2012
62 Argentina 95.10 2018
63 Qatar 94.77 2019
64 Peru 94.56 2016
65 Malaysia 94.55 2018
66 Jordan 94.51 2019
67 New Caledonia 94.46 1989
68 Romania 94.39 2018
69 South Africa 94.28 2018
70 Vietnam 94.04 2014
71 St. Lucia 93.75 2019
72 Saudi Arabia 93.69 2013
73 Costa Rica 93.35 2015
74 Bosnia and Herzegovina 93.19 2019
75 Syrian Arab Republic 92.93 2001
76 Colombia 92.84 2018
77 Netherlands 92.77 1984
78 Guyana 92.49 2011
79 Samoa 92.30 2019
80 Cabo Verde 91.98 2015
81 Fiji 91.89 2015
82 Algeria 91.24 2018
83 Tonga 91.21 2019
84 Zimbabwe 90.84 2019
85 United Arab Emirates 90.82 2012
86 Timor-Leste 90.52 2018
87 Djibouti 90.43 2020
88 Trinidad and Tobago 90.34 2009
89 Monaco 90.11 2020
90 Antigua and Barbuda 89.89 2014
91 Sudan 89.85 2017
92 Namibia 89.60 2017
93 Dominica 89.51 2014
94 Dominican Republic 89.38 2019
95 Suriname 89.36 2018
96 Albania 88.87 2019
97 São Tomé and Principe 88.42 2010
98 Libya 87.27 1980
99 Panama 87.22 2013
100 Vanuatu 86.96 2019
101 Bhutan 86.78 2017
102 Venezuela 86.65 2016
103 Lebanon 86.62 2019
104 Jamaica 86.53 2019
105 Kiribati 86.52 2005
106 India 86.04 2018
107 Ghana 85.98 2017
108 Paraguay 85.44 2011
109 El Salvador 85.23 2017
110 France 84.83 1971
111 Kuwait 84.73 2018
112 Côte d'Ivoire 83.05 2015
113 Solomon Islands 81.97 2018
114 Tanzania 81.85 2019
115 Senegal 81.73 2019
116 Grenada 81.64 2017
117 Puerto Rico 81.46 2014
118 Cambodia 80.72 2019
119 The Gambia 80.51 2019
120 Eritrea 80.15 2017
121 Guatemala 79.86 2019
122 Lao PDR 79.82 2019
123 Honduras 79.32 2019
124 Kenya 78.62 2004
125 Lesotho 78.56 2015
126 Yemen 77.49 2012
127 Cayman Islands 77.48 2004
128 Niger 77.46 2015
129 Chad 76.87 2017
130 Cameroon 76.79 2018
131 Zambia 75.65 2012
132 Equatorial Guinea 75.48 2011
133 Congo 75.25 2007
134 Nepal 73.69 2016
135 Mali 73.47 2011
136 Rwanda 73.11 2018
137 Myanmar 72.24 2009
138 Comoros 71.55 2013
139 Nigeria 70.22 2009
140 Malawi 69.80 2018
141 Mauritania 67.98 2016
142 Guinea 67.97 2013
143 Iraq 67.45 1999
144 The Bahamas 67.33 2015
145 Papua New Guinea 66.22 1997
146 Tuvalu 65.06 2015
147 Burkina Faso 63.22 2019
148 Bangladesh 61.95 2009
149 Afghanistan 61.89 1980
150 Pakistan 61.29 2018
151 Togo 61.12 2013
152 Uganda 60.08 2016
153 Gabon 58.41 1995
154 Central African Republic 57.16 2011
155 Mozambique 56.87 2019
156 Liberia 55.55 2016
157 Angola 52.58 2009
158 Benin 50.00 2019
159 Burundi 49.40 2018
160 Sierra Leone 48.44 2019
161 Nicaragua 47.94 2007
162 Dem. Rep. Congo 44.72 2014
163 Ethiopia 43.22 2014
164 Haiti 33.96 1985
165 Madagascar 29.92 2018
166 Guinea-Bissau 23.20 1987
167 Turkey 0.00 2014
167 Hungary 0.00 2013

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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.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual