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

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in Burkina Faso was 48.48 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 76.79 in 1994, while its lowest value was 47.84 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 50.57
1972 47.84
1973 52.99
1974 58.24
1975 62.42
1976 63.12
1977 59.07
1978 62.63
1979 65.20
1980 67.80
1981 76.45
1982 69.26
1983 70.09
1984 73.36
1986 74.72
1987 67.08
1988 66.59
1989 63.16
1990 70.00
1994 76.79
1998 57.35
1999 59.50
2000 59.96
2001 56.33
2002 65.16
2003 67.74
2004 68.13
2005 63.19
2006 70.64
2007 67.67
2008 70.84
2009 61.23
2011 65.67
2012 64.30
2013 64.89
2014 62.23
2015 64.19
2016 60.81
2017 64.40
2018 50.45
2019 48.48

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