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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in European Union was 97.88 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 97.90 in 2018, while its lowest value was 93.32 in 1971.

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/)

See also:

Year Value
1970 93.33
1971 93.32
1972 93.54
1973 93.71
1974 93.83
1975 94.10
1976 94.34
1977 94.76
1978 94.66
1979 94.64
1980 94.94
1981 95.21
1982 94.92
1983 95.30
1984 95.80
1985 95.93
1986 95.42
1987 95.10
1988 95.43
1989 95.47
1990 95.79
1991 95.94
1992 95.96
1993 96.24
1994 95.65
1995 96.65
1996 95.99
1997 95.59
1998 96.78
1999 96.69
2000 96.85
2001 96.88
2002 97.02
2003 97.29
2004 97.35
2005 97.15
2006 97.01
2007 96.80
2008 96.89
2009 96.85
2010 96.91
2011 96.85
2012 96.63
2013 96.81
2014 97.01
2015 97.22
2016 97.53
2017 97.86
2018 97.90
2019 97.88

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