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

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Rwanda was 76.65 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 81.78 in 1980, while its lowest value was 39.60 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 39.60
1972 41.69
1973 44.19
1974 47.99
1976 58.27
1977 56.33
1979 76.09
1980 81.78
1981 71.38
1982 57.00
1983 62.55
1984 63.96
1985 64.66
1986 68.90
1987 67.18
1988 66.63
1989 59.58
1990 58.90
1991 59.97
1999 45.26
2000 41.73
2001 41.25
2002 46.65
2003 45.92
2008 48.51
2009 47.19
2011 51.94
2012 51.17
2013 52.23
2014 61.97
2015 74.79
2016 70.71
2017 68.08
2018 76.65

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