Cuba - Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) in Cuba was 96.25 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 97.39 in 2001, while its lowest value was 71.63 in 1971.

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 71.63
1972 85.24
1973 84.52
1974 87.46
1975 87.50
1976 87.69
1977 86.89
1980 87.15
1981 88.86
1982 90.19
1983 91.64
1984 92.62
1985 92.59
1986 94.02
1987 92.93
1988 91.03
1989 89.79
1990 90.33
1991 91.58
1992 94.02
1993 94.93
1994 93.72
1998 77.71
1999 95.65
2000 96.67
2001 97.39
2002 97.24
2003 96.94
2004 96.94
2005 97.00
2006 96.82
2007 96.47
2008 95.92
2009 96.60
2010 95.92
2011 96.50
2012 96.69
2013 96.67
2014 95.98
2015 96.25
2016 96.30
2017 96.71
2018 96.82
2019 96.25

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