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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Small states was 74.72 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 76.36 in 2015, while its lowest value was 65.18 in 1975.

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
1970 66.98
1971 67.69
1972 68.78
1973 69.53
1974 66.18
1975 65.18
1976 66.27
1977 66.90
1978 68.36
1979 69.41
1980 70.55
1981 70.51
1982 70.03
1983 69.58
1984 70.68
1985 70.36
1986 71.22
1987 70.33
1988 70.63
1989 71.42
1990 71.30
1991 70.60
1992 71.89
1993 75.00
1994 73.85
1995 71.83
1996 73.04
1997 73.61
1998 72.73
1999 72.41
2000 72.40
2001 72.32
2002 73.58
2003 72.78
2004 72.55
2005 73.24
2006 71.80
2007 73.98
2008 73.45
2009 73.65
2010 73.22
2011 75.02
2012 74.27
2013 76.14
2014 76.15
2015 76.36
2016 75.83
2017 76.18
2018 76.35
2019 74.72

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