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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Benin was 38.77 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 75.74 in 2000, while its lowest value was 7.54 in 1989.

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
1971 65.59
1972 61.35
1973 45.03
1975 59.81
1976 48.73
1977 50.73
1978 55.22
1979 53.56
1980 52.65
1982 56.09
1983 34.31
1984 50.83
1985 36.65
1986 43.49
1987 34.30
1988 40.02
1989 7.54
1990 62.96
1991 46.20
1992 61.74
1993 46.97
1994 55.89
1995 51.57
1996 57.87
1997 56.71
2000 75.74
2001 68.22
2002 59.11
2003 64.27
2009 53.94
2010 55.78
2011 59.26
2012 53.23
2013 53.39
2014 57.26
2015 47.49
2018 33.92
2019 38.77

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