Algeria - Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Algeria was 91.56 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 46 years was 96.27 in 2017, while its lowest value was 68.70 in 1972.

Definition: 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.

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

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Year Value
1972 68.70
1973 70.55
1974 70.22
1975 72.93
1976 71.17
1977 72.54
1978 73.92
1979 74.87
1980 75.89
1981 76.64
1982 79.35
1983 83.68
1984 86.75
1985 93.41
1986 90.32
1987 90.79
1988 88.27
1989 89.83
1990 90.19
1991 90.25
1992 88.61
1993 90.13
1994 88.15
1995 89.86
1996 90.38
1998 92.04
1999 91.46
2000 94.56
2001 93.48
2002 94.52
2003 93.46
2004 93.20
2005 90.92
2006 92.01
2007 92.95
2009 95.04
2010 94.55
2011 92.77
2012 96.21
2013 93.41
2014 93.80
2015 93.60
2016 94.85
2017 96.27
2018 91.56

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. 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

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Efficiency