IDA only - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in IDA only was 59.70 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 61.20 in 2001, while its lowest value was 40.41 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/)

See also:

Year Value
1971 40.41
1972 41.95
1973 43.02
1974 44.74
1975 45.71
1976 45.94
1977 47.38
1978 46.41
1979 46.63
1980 45.58
1981 45.60
1982 48.07
1983 48.05
1984 48.94
1985 51.13
1986 52.42
1987 52.85
1988 53.50
1989 53.92
1990 54.95
1991 54.66
1992 55.82
1993 55.36
1994 54.66
1995 55.47
1996 54.86
1997 55.15
1998 55.43
1999 56.81
2000 58.84
2001 61.20
2002 60.33
2003 59.27
2004 60.52
2005 60.73
2006 60.74
2007 60.35
2008 59.02
2009 58.16
2010 57.38
2011 59.04
2012 56.56
2013 57.29
2014 58.70
2015 59.62
2016 59.04
2017 60.05
2018 59.71
2019 59.70

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