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

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Rwanda was 71.32 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 78.32 in 1980, while its lowest value was 25.87 in 1971.

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
1971 25.87
1972 30.80
1973 29.43
1974 34.81
1976 46.27
1979 71.30
1980 78.32
1981 64.16
1982 48.37
1983 54.17
1984 56.31
1985 56.73
1986 61.87
1987 59.62
1988 59.10
1989 51.72
1990 50.37
1991 49.17
2000 30.97
2001 30.41
2002 37.33
2003 32.30
2008 40.13
2009 38.97
2011 37.56
2012 38.66
2013 38.94
2014 48.39
2015 61.17
2016 63.04
2017 59.75
2018 71.32

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