IBRD only - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in IBRD only was 95.33 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 95.33 in 2019, while its lowest value was 63.20 in 1973.

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 64.37
1971 64.10
1972 63.86
1973 63.20
1974 63.60
1975 64.53
1976 66.08
1977 67.79
1978 67.65
1979 67.78
1980 67.63
1981 68.16
1982 68.54
1983 69.13
1984 68.77
1985 69.66
1986 70.76
1987 72.69
1988 72.57
1989 72.66
1990 74.29
1991 74.76
1992 75.08
1993 76.02
1994 76.70
1995 78.04
1996 78.62
1997 78.84
1998 79.26
1999 79.26
2000 78.79
2001 81.08
2002 79.24
2003 78.35
2004 77.75
2005 77.46
2006 79.80
2007 81.54
2008 83.76
2009 84.49
2010 85.32
2011 84.52
2012 83.35
2013 82.53
2014 90.98
2015 91.10
2016 90.75
2017 92.40
2018 91.47
2019 95.33

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