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

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in South Asia was 91.13 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 91.13 in 2019, while its lowest value was 35.78 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
1970 36.46
1971 35.78
1972 35.79
1973 35.91
1974 36.93
1975 38.13
1976 39.06
1977 40.42
1978 41.59
1979 42.77
1980 43.37
1981 44.69
1982 46.22
1983 47.60
1984 49.15
1985 50.66
1986 52.34
1987 58.66
1988 58.84
1989 58.49
1990 58.30
1991 58.00
1992 57.80
1993 57.64
1994 57.52
1995 58.49
1996 59.47
1997 60.42
1998 61.19
1999 62.41
2000 61.33
2001 65.15
2002 66.29
2003 67.41
2004 68.65
2005 67.57
2006 69.00
2007 70.47
2008 71.77
2009 73.23
2010 73.31
2011 75.45
2012 76.34
2013 79.05
2014 86.82
2015 86.38
2016 80.61
2017 85.28
2018 82.54
2019 91.13

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