Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 51.15 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 63.30 in 2001, while its lowest value was 50.07 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/)

See also:

Year Value
1970 56.06
1971 56.91
1972 57.04
1973 58.00
1974 61.52
1975 61.32
1976 60.77
1977 62.94
1978 60.79
1979 60.17
1980 59.71
1981 58.02
1982 60.11
1983 59.54
1984 59.16
1985 61.12
1986 62.42
1987 60.36
1988 57.69
1989 57.48
1990 58.23
1991 57.56
1992 59.91
1993 59.40
1994 57.14
1995 58.45
1996 56.80
1997 55.93
1998 55.03
1999 57.20
2000 60.00
2001 63.30
2002 61.46
2003 58.52
2004 59.85
2005 58.60
2006 60.12
2007 58.38
2008 55.96
2009 53.59
2010 53.05
2011 54.82
2012 52.39
2013 50.70
2014 50.84
2015 51.02
2016 50.07
2017 52.57
2018 51.52
2019 51.15

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