Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort) - Country Ranking - Europe

Definition: Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Ireland 100.00 1994
1 Sweden 100.00 2018
3 Spain 99.99 2018
4 Estonia 99.93 2018
5 Portugal 99.88 2018
6 Italy 99.86 2018
7 Slovenia 99.86 2018
8 Montenegro 99.84 2019
9 Iceland 99.83 2018
10 Denmark 99.82 2018
11 Norway 99.73 2018
12 United Kingdom 99.70 2018
13 Switzerland 99.64 2018
14 Czech Republic 99.55 2018
15 Poland 99.45 2018
16 Finland 99.45 2018
17 Greece 99.42 2018
18 Cyprus 99.22 2016
19 Liechtenstein 99.00 2017
20 Andorra 98.82 2016
21 Belgium 97.98 2018
22 Malta 97.80 2018
23 San Marino 97.77 2019
24 North Macedonia 97.58 2017
25 Monaco 97.49 2020
26 Latvia 97.28 2018
27 Luxembourg 96.37 2016
28 Netherlands 96.21 1984
29 Romania 94.38 2018
30 Bosnia and Herzegovina 94.02 2019
31 Albania 90.06 2019
32 France 89.06 1971
33 Hungary 0.00 2013
33 Turkey 0.00 2014

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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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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