Benin - Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Benin was 48.89 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 84.16 in 2000, while its lowest value was 14.17 in 1989.

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:

Year Value
1971 66.29
1972 61.90
1973 47.75
1974 67.12
1975 60.57
1976 51.68
1977 53.32
1978 60.15
1979 58.91
1980 55.05
1982 59.43
1983 39.78
1984 55.11
1985 43.61
1986 50.12
1987 42.04
1988 46.81
1989 14.17
1990 67.11
1991 55.07
1992 67.30
1993 55.37
1994 64.79
1995 60.94
1996 66.36
1997 64.62
2000 84.16
2001 72.03
2002 68.48
2003 69.80
2009 60.42
2010 62.98
2011 67.53
2012 61.15
2013 62.70
2014 66.83
2015 57.59
2018 43.41
2019 48.89

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

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Efficiency