Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 56.76 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 59.43 in 2001, while its lowest value was 48.13 in 1970.

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 48.13
1971 48.59
1972 49.37
1973 50.93
1974 54.31
1975 55.24
1976 55.61
1977 57.81
1978 55.49
1979 55.07
1980 54.41
1981 52.35
1982 54.86
1983 52.77
1984 52.41
1985 54.58
1986 55.30
1987 53.96
1988 53.29
1989 53.49
1990 54.23
1991 53.47
1992 55.17
1993 53.68
1994 52.24
1995 53.39
1996 52.24
1997 52.20
1998 52.02
1999 54.16
2000 57.16
2001 59.43
2002 57.41
2003 55.98
2004 57.70
2005 57.89
2006 58.10
2007 57.38
2008 55.87
2009 53.27
2010 51.96
2011 54.79
2012 53.36
2013 54.44
2014 55.75
2015 56.33
2016 55.28
2017 56.11
2018 56.78
2019 56.76

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