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

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 53.84 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 61.51 in 2001, while its lowest value was 52.48 in 2013.

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 52.74
1971 53.41
1972 53.81
1973 55.01
1974 58.46
1975 58.72
1976 58.56
1977 60.73
1978 58.50
1979 57.95
1980 57.41
1981 55.51
1982 57.77
1983 56.52
1984 56.16
1985 58.20
1986 59.20
1987 57.50
1988 55.71
1989 55.69
1990 56.43
1991 55.72
1992 57.77
1993 56.85
1994 54.95
1995 56.20
1996 54.74
1997 54.24
1998 53.65
1999 55.80
2000 58.69
2001 61.51
2002 59.58
2003 57.33
2004 58.83
2005 58.26
2006 59.16
2007 57.91
2008 55.92
2009 53.44
2010 52.54
2011 54.81
2012 52.86
2013 52.48
2014 53.17
2015 53.55
2016 52.55
2017 54.26
2018 54.03
2019 53.84

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