Persistence to grade 5, total (% of cohort) - Country Ranking - Central America & the Caribbean

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/)

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Rank Country Value Year
1 St. Kitts and Nevis 97.99 2014
2 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 96.66 2017
3 Cuba 96.25 2019
4 St. Lucia 94.89 2019
5 Costa Rica 94.89 2016
6 Barbados 94.46 2010
7 Belize 93.02 2019
8 Trinidad and Tobago 92.07 2009
9 Antigua and Barbuda 89.82 2014
10 Dominican Republic 89.31 2019
11 Panama 88.72 2013
12 Grenada 87.24 2017
13 El Salvador 86.55 2017
14 Puerto Rico 83.47 2014
15 Honduras 81.42 2019
16 Guatemala 81.30 2019
17 Cayman Islands 80.80 2012
18 Dominica 78.00 2015
19 Jamaica 72.11 2019
20 The Bahamas 70.24 2015
21 Nicaragua 51.38 2007
22 Haiti 36.21 1985

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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