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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Colombia was 95.01 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 95.01 in 2018, while its lowest value was 36.61 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 40.19
1971 36.61
1972 41.34
1973 37.12
1981 37.13
1982 54.64
1983 55.02
1984 55.07
1985 55.83
1986 60.69
1987 56.04
1988 55.98
1989 52.18
1991 71.97
1992 59.07
1993 62.85
1994 57.71
1995 71.51
1998 63.43
1999 66.57
2000 60.93
2001 69.41
2004 80.87
2005 80.83
2006 85.22
2007 84.72
2009 84.53
2010 87.36
2011 84.71
2012 71.97
2013 83.50
2014 88.26
2015 89.98
2016 91.68
2017 92.43
2018 95.01

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