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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Guatemala was 76.49 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 84.96 in 2017, while its lowest value was 25.68 in 1981.

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
1970 30.97
1971 32.34
1974 33.74
1975 32.11
1976 37.15
1977 37.03
1978 35.51
1979 38.71
1980 41.33
1981 25.68
1982 47.18
1983 39.76
1984 39.88
1985 35.52
1995 44.53
1999 51.79
2000 50.39
2001 60.49
2004 62.65
2005 63.34
2006 62.49
2007 64.79
2008 78.81
2009 67.98
2010 70.93
2011 66.73
2012 67.74
2013 71.76
2014 74.76
2016 78.40
2017 84.96
2018 71.85
2019 76.49

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