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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Malawi was 54.07 as of 2013. Its highest value over the past 40 years was 62.33 in 2012, while its lowest value was 27.31 in 1982.

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
1973 37.36
1974 43.92
1975 31.14
1976 32.20
1977 30.03
1978 31.64
1979 39.86
1980 33.19
1981 39.77
1982 27.31
1983 30.71
1984 41.30
1985 40.63
1986 54.09
1987 38.36
1988 52.27
1989 46.23
1990 39.41
1991 53.44
1992 34.79
1993 29.84
1995 28.39
1998 37.65
1999 36.25
2000 37.16
2001 32.80
2004 33.84
2005 36.14
2006 35.93
2007 59.87
2008 41.95
2009 52.81
2010 50.90
2011 49.12
2012 62.33
2013 54.07

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