Fragile and conflict affected situations - Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 57.41 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 69.28 in 2000, while its lowest value was 54.94 in 2016.

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
1970 59.18
1971 59.42
1972 62.43
1973 62.31
1974 63.07
1975 63.96
1976 64.02
1977 65.58
1978 65.42
1979 65.34
1980 65.71
1981 65.67
1982 66.34
1983 66.78
1984 67.23
1985 67.70
1986 68.40
1987 67.91
1988 65.73
1989 66.55
1990 67.71
1991 67.21
1992 68.66
1993 68.73
1994 68.17
1995 68.57
1996 68.64
1997 67.93
1998 67.23
1999 68.44
2000 69.28
2001 68.25
2002 67.56
2003 66.43
2004 67.06
2005 67.69
2006 61.76
2007 58.70
2008 63.50
2009 58.83
2010 59.15
2011 60.50
2012 57.41
2013 56.45
2014 55.95
2015 55.82
2016 54.94
2017 57.19
2018 57.32
2019 57.41

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