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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Arab World was 82.88 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 84.62 in 1986, while its lowest value was 74.58 in 1971.

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
1970 74.74
1971 74.58
1972 75.60
1973 75.88
1974 76.62
1975 77.82
1976 77.64
1977 78.21
1978 77.80
1979 78.92
1980 79.63
1981 80.65
1982 80.81
1983 82.61
1984 83.04
1985 84.30
1986 84.62
1987 84.34
1988 82.17
1989 83.58
1990 84.23
1991 83.64
1992 83.67
1993 84.12
1994 83.63
1995 83.49
1996 83.12
1997 82.29
1998 82.38
1999 82.71
2000 82.66
2001 82.03
2002 82.13
2003 81.76
2004 80.09
2005 79.85
2006 81.01
2007 81.55
2008 82.19
2009 83.81
2010 84.03
2011 84.06
2012 79.67
2013 78.28
2014 78.05
2015 79.79
2016 79.58
2017 82.25
2018 82.60
2019 82.88

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