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

Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort) in Burkina Faso was 73.21 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 85.20 in 2012, while its lowest value was 52.42 in 1972.

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 55.39
1972 52.42
1973 56.49
1974 67.82
1975 60.73
1976 60.77
1977 64.31
1978 65.47
1979 67.92
1980 67.89
1981 73.80
1982 73.41
1983 72.31
1984 73.69
1986 74.97
1987 72.67
1988 72.48
1989 71.47
1990 77.34
1991 67.82
1994 79.68
1998 68.83
1999 70.42
2000 71.36
2001 67.86
2002 75.05
2003 77.92
2004 76.09
2005 73.92
2006 82.07
2007 81.48
2008 82.62
2009 77.60
2011 83.58
2012 85.20
2013 82.72
2014 82.54
2015 84.52
2016 81.36
2017 84.69
2018 74.10
2019 73.21

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