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

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Malawi was 71.67 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 71.67 in 2018, while its lowest value was 30.09 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 47.52
1974 50.55
1975 38.69
1976 36.76
1977 37.20
1978 38.95
1979 45.81
1980 37.76
1981 44.00
1982 30.09
1983 34.22
1984 45.97
1985 44.38
1986 57.13
1987 43.83
1988 60.40
1989 53.26
1990 46.31
1991 64.47
1992 41.94
1993 37.34
1995 34.20
1998 44.17
1999 48.48
2000 48.81
2001 43.86
2004 42.24
2005 44.45
2006 43.59
2007 68.23
2008 50.69
2009 60.86
2010 59.26
2011 57.71
2012 70.11
2013 64.44
2018 71.67

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