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

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Arab World was 82.86 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 84.48 in 2011, while its lowest value was 71.20 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/)

See also:

Year Value
1971 71.20
1972 72.49
1973 72.31
1974 72.63
1975 74.06
1976 73.59
1977 74.18
1978 73.33
1979 74.93
1980 75.80
1981 77.36
1982 77.82
1983 79.01
1984 79.61
1985 81.50
1986 81.74
1987 82.41
1988 79.29
1989 80.94
1990 81.71
1991 81.69
1992 82.05
1993 82.62
1994 82.11
1995 82.21
1996 82.25
1997 81.69
1998 81.98
1999 82.37
2000 82.28
2001 81.40
2002 81.69
2003 80.82
2004 79.47
2005 79.16
2006 80.49
2007 80.94
2008 81.88
2009 83.64
2010 84.06
2011 84.48
2012 80.27
2013 79.51
2014 78.31
2015 79.85
2016 79.86
2017 82.12
2018 82.52
2019 82.86

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