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

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Benin was 37.58 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 66.37 in 2000, while its lowest value was 6.59 in 1989.

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
1971 63.27
1972 56.63
1973 34.20
1975 60.23
1976 41.05
1977 52.02
1978 57.90
1980 39.12
1982 55.71
1983 36.88
1984 45.49
1985 34.26
1986 40.22
1987 31.59
1988 36.07
1989 6.59
1991 44.68
1992 59.47
1993 44.24
1994 50.44
1995 45.92
1996 52.65
1997 53.84
2000 66.37
2001 63.04
2002 54.94
2003 63.31
2009 51.35
2010 52.96
2011 57.78
2012 51.54
2013 52.33
2014 55.74
2015 46.34
2018 32.50
2019 37.58

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