Malawi - Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort) in Malawi was 73.48 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 73.48 in 2018, while its lowest value was 27.14 in 1982.

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
1973 41.88
1974 42.57
1975 33.42
1976 32.62
1977 30.64
1978 31.86
1979 39.15
1980 34.26
1981 39.72
1982 27.14
1983 31.81
1984 40.92
1985 42.30
1986 54.22
1987 41.36
1988 54.90
1989 49.63
1990 44.16
1991 57.36
1992 47.86
1993 35.86
1995 32.35
1999 42.19
2001 38.11
2004 40.75
2005 44.43
2006 42.68
2007 65.88
2008 50.07
2009 62.27
2010 60.20
2011 56.84
2012 67.46
2013 64.99
2018 73.48

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