Middle income - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Middle income was 89.59 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 89.59 in 2019, while its lowest value was 62.48 in 1973.

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/)

See also:

Year Value
1970 63.32
1971 62.95
1972 62.94
1973 62.48
1974 62.87
1975 63.63
1976 65.03
1977 66.56
1978 66.45
1979 66.71
1980 66.30
1981 66.76
1982 67.45
1983 67.81
1984 67.55
1985 68.44
1986 69.49
1987 71.33
1988 71.45
1989 71.49
1990 72.84
1991 73.30
1992 73.68
1993 74.54
1994 75.17
1995 76.28
1996 76.82
1997 77.02
1998 77.39
1999 77.25
2000 76.87
2001 79.07
2002 77.48
2003 76.51
2004 75.94
2005 75.05
2006 75.80
2007 77.32
2008 80.12
2009 80.70
2010 80.79
2011 80.64
2012 79.53
2013 79.66
2014 85.82
2015 86.61
2016 85.15
2017 87.05
2018 86.70
2019 89.59

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