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

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Niger was 77.75 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 84.12 in 1988, while its lowest value was 54.84 in 1971.

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/)

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Year Value
1971 54.84
1972 60.82
1973 58.73
1974 63.17
1975 65.85
1976 70.01
1977 75.45
1978 67.58
1979 72.65
1980 72.59
1981 73.30
1982 73.50
1983 82.21
1984 64.35
1986 75.56
1988 84.12
1989 73.27
1990 82.26
1991 62.40
1992 76.80
1995 68.72
1996 72.55
1997 71.31
1998 65.52
1999 61.35
2000 73.98
2001 71.05
2002 69.13
2003 73.57
2006 71.98
2007 74.75
2008 69.35
2009 64.26
2010 71.47
2011 64.56
2012 63.87
2013 64.45
2015 77.75

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