Lesotho - Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort) in Lesotho was 78.56 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 43 years was 78.56 in 2015, while its lowest value was 35.94 in 1976.

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/)

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Year Value
1972 51.64
1973 59.02
1974 45.58
1975 40.12
1976 35.94
1977 37.39
1978 40.66
1979 42.68
1980 49.85
1981 56.01
1982 48.91
1983 48.87
1984 55.45
1985 49.44
1986 54.38
1987 55.58
1988 50.04
1989 55.38
1990 58.27
1991 58.83
1992 54.39
1993 71.61
1994 67.94
1995 55.32
1996 62.09
1997 65.11
1998 61.30
1999 68.19
2000 60.48
2001 66.23
2002 69.46
2003 58.17
2004 66.18
2005 68.93
2006 55.65
2007 72.86
2008 64.55
2009 76.26
2010 69.27
2011 69.61
2012 63.10
2013 74.27
2014 72.81
2015 78.56

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

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Efficiency