Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) - Country Ranking - Middle East

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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Rank Country Value Year
1 Turkey 99.85 2018
2 Uzbekistan 99.71 2019
3 Oman 99.21 2019
4 Tajikistan 98.96 2016
5 Israel 98.79 2018
6 Kyrgyz Republic 97.69 2019
7 Bahrain 96.78 2018
8 Iran 95.95 2016
9 Qatar 94.24 2019
10 Kuwait 93.95 2019
11 Jordan 93.68 2019
12 Syrian Arab Republic 93.16 2011
13 United Arab Emirates 91.96 2012
14 Saudi Arabia 88.33 2019
15 Lebanon 84.86 2019
16 Afghanistan 75.57 1984
17 Yemen 69.47 2012
18 Pakistan 65.29 2018
19 Iraq 49.50 1999

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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. 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