Cuba - Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Cuba was 95.97 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 96.89 in 2005, while its lowest value was 60.08 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/)

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Year Value
1971 60.08
1972 74.50
1973 76.04
1974 81.92
1975 82.66
1976 83.46
1977 83.81
1980 83.22
1981 85.99
1982 87.88
1983 89.98
1984 90.75
1985 90.50
1986 92.17
1987 90.78
1988 89.39
1989 88.24
1990 88.94
1991 89.66
1992 92.27
1993 93.32
1994 92.25
1999 94.68
2000 96.02
2001 96.81
2002 96.65
2003 96.59
2004 96.81
2005 96.89
2006 96.82
2007 96.09
2008 95.50
2009 96.15
2010 95.04
2011 96.48
2012 95.79
2013 96.46
2014 94.62
2015 95.53
2016 95.76
2017 96.40
2018 96.73
2019 95.97

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