Burkina Faso - Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort) in Burkina Faso was 63.22 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 81.95 in 2008, while its lowest value was 52.88 in 1972.

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 57.13
1972 52.88
1973 58.06
1974 59.88
1975 64.83
1976 65.94
1977 63.40
1978 65.17
1979 67.84
1980 67.80
1981 76.45
1982 71.48
1983 74.62
1984 73.36
1986 75.37
1987 71.70
1988 69.92
1989 68.96
1990 74.42
1991 70.94
1994 77.96
1998 65.35
1999 66.92
2000 67.64
2001 63.69
2002 71.83
2003 74.38
2004 75.19
2005 71.47
2006 79.44
2007 78.12
2008 81.95
2009 73.04
2011 77.45
2012 76.76
2013 75.75
2014 74.96
2015 76.77
2016 73.14
2017 78.14
2018 64.96
2019 63.22

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