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

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Burkina Faso was 61.14 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 76.04 in 1994, while its lowest value was 44.89 in 1972.

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 48.87
1972 44.89
1973 51.41
1974 63.31
1975 51.69
1976 58.72
1977 59.34
1978 61.79
1979 62.86
1980 64.18
1981 69.30
1982 70.15
1983 70.46
1984 70.36
1986 71.58
1987 67.47
1988 68.81
1989 64.66
1990 72.08
1994 76.04
1998 61.33
1999 63.42
2000 63.39
2001 61.30
2002 68.55
2003 71.32
2004 70.16
2005 66.18
2006 73.84
2007 70.68
2008 71.54
2009 66.60
2011 72.79
2012 74.57
2013 74.63
2014 70.70
2015 73.92
2016 70.99
2017 73.67
2018 62.06
2019 61.14

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