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

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in South Asia was 87.02 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 87.02 in 2019, while its lowest value was 41.94 in 1972.

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 42.44
1971 41.98
1972 41.94
1973 42.18
1974 42.89
1975 43.65
1976 44.52
1977 45.49
1978 46.51
1979 47.45
1980 48.12
1981 49.00
1982 49.77
1983 50.91
1984 52.08
1985 53.12
1986 54.16
1987 62.39
1988 62.71
1989 62.36
1990 62.12
1991 61.82
1992 61.56
1993 61.32
1994 61.05
1995 61.54
1996 62.03
1997 62.50
1998 62.75
1999 63.38
2000 60.58
2001 61.14
2002 62.46
2003 64.01
2004 65.26
2005 64.61
2006 66.69
2007 68.72
2008 70.62
2009 71.81
2010 71.76
2011 73.90
2012 75.62
2013 79.67
2014 84.53
2015 84.85
2016 80.15
2017 84.49
2018 79.14
2019 87.02

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