Korea - Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in Korea was 99.36 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 99.97 in 1993, while its lowest value was 92.56 in 1972.

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
1971 95.74
1972 92.56
1973 93.24
1974 94.81
1975 94.21
1976 92.72
1977 95.04
1978 95.95
1979 97.16
1981 93.49
1982 96.75
1983 96.49
1984 98.98
1985 99.28
1986 98.77
1987 99.31
1988 99.10
1989 99.51
1990 99.49
1991 99.05
1992 99.55
1993 99.97
1994 99.02
1997 95.43
1998 99.43
1999 99.35
2000 98.75
2001 98.05
2002 99.14
2003 97.17
2004 98.47
2005 98.41
2006 97.47
2007 98.17
2008 98.91
2009 99.24
2010 98.98
2011 99.18
2012 99.63
2013 99.36
2014 99.33
2015 99.40
2016 99.45
2017 99.28
2018 99.36

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