Persistence to grade 5, male (% of cohort) - Country Ranking - Asia

Definition: Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 China 100.00 2019
2 Japan 99.97 2016
3 Macao SAR, China 99.88 2019
4 Hong Kong SAR, China 99.48 2019
5 Israel 99.46 2018
6 Singapore 99.41 2018
7 Korea 99.36 2018
8 Indonesia 99.07 2017
9 Brunei 98.86 2019
10 Georgia 98.75 2019
11 Iran 98.30 2016
12 Oman 98.29 2016
13 Mongolia 97.92 2018
14 Sri Lanka 97.90 2018
15 Thailand 97.60 2017
16 Philippines 97.16 2018
17 Bahrain 96.98 2018
18 Qatar 94.77 2019
19 Malaysia 94.55 2018
20 Jordan 94.51 2019
21 Vietnam 94.04 2014
22 Saudi Arabia 93.69 2013
23 Syrian Arab Republic 92.93 2001
24 United Arab Emirates 90.82 2012
25 Timor-Leste 90.52 2018
26 Bhutan 86.78 2017
27 Lebanon 86.62 2019
28 India 86.04 2018
29 Kuwait 84.73 2018
30 Cambodia 80.72 2019
31 Lao PDR 79.82 2019
32 Yemen 77.49 2012
33 Nepal 73.69 2016
34 Myanmar 72.24 2009
35 Iraq 67.45 1999
36 Bangladesh 61.95 2009
37 Afghanistan 61.89 1980
38 Pakistan 61.29 2018
39 Turkey 0.00 2014

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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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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