Benin - Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort) in Benin was 47.70 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 77.72 in 2000, while its lowest value was 13.70 in 1989.

Definition: Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. 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 65.11
1972 58.40
1973 40.99
1975 60.23
1976 46.75
1977 52.32
1978 59.43
1979 69.90
1980 42.68
1982 58.61
1983 42.57
1984 52.00
1985 42.60
1986 49.26
1987 40.91
1988 45.22
1989 13.70
1991 55.92
1992 68.01
1993 54.67
1994 61.46
1995 56.67
1996 62.47
1997 62.52
2000 77.72
2001 67.78
2002 65.81
2003 69.59
2009 58.94
2010 60.68
2011 67.28
2012 60.41
2013 62.55
2014 66.05
2015 57.34
2018 42.23
2019 47.70

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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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