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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in South Asia was 88.97 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 88.97 in 2019, while its lowest value was 39.54 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 40.16
1971 39.61
1972 39.54
1973 39.71
1974 40.55
1975 41.49
1976 42.35
1977 43.49
1978 44.55
1979 45.58
1980 46.23
1981 47.24
1982 48.36
1983 49.59
1984 50.90
1985 52.11
1986 53.39
1987 60.82
1988 61.07
1989 60.71
1990 60.49
1991 60.17
1992 59.93
1993 59.71
1994 59.52
1995 60.21
1996 60.91
1997 61.59
1998 62.07
1999 62.95
2000 60.91
2001 62.89
2002 64.25
2003 65.59
2004 66.83
2005 65.98
2006 67.76
2007 69.54
2008 71.16
2009 72.48
2010 72.50
2011 74.64
2012 75.96
2013 79.38
2014 85.62
2015 85.58
2016 80.37
2017 84.86
2018 80.75
2019 88.97

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