Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) - Country Ranking - Africa

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/)

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Egypt 99.52 2018
2 South Africa 99.34 2018
3 Morocco 96.02 2019
4 Seychelles 95.83 2017
5 Botswana 95.39 2012
6 Tunisia 95.05 2016
7 Mauritius 94.33 2018
8 Algeria 91.89 2018
9 Cabo Verde 91.01 2015
10 Zimbabwe 90.84 2019
11 Djibouti 88.31 2020
12 Namibia 86.96 2017
13 Eswatini 86.39 2018
14 The Gambia 84.33 2019
15 Sudan 83.43 2017
16 Tanzania 82.65 2019
17 Ghana 82.38 2017
18 Côte d'Ivoire 80.90 2015
19 Lesotho 80.62 2015
20 Eritrea 79.78 2017
21 Libya 78.60 1980
22 Comoros 78.03 2013
23 Chad 74.91 2017
24 São Tomé and Principe 74.78 2008
25 Senegal 73.48 2019
26 Equatorial Guinea 72.06 2011
27 Kenya 71.40 2003
28 Rwanda 71.32 2018
29 Congo 70.54 2007
30 Nigeria 66.58 2009
31 Mauritania 66.42 2016
32 Niger 65.66 2013
33 Guinea 65.00 2013
34 Cameroon 64.24 2018
35 Burkina Faso 61.14 2019
36 Dem. Rep. Congo 60.51 2014
37 Mali 59.42 2011
38 Malawi 54.63 2013
39 Gabon 53.81 1995
40 Zambia 53.76 2012
41 Togo 51.37 2013
42 Burundi 47.57 2018
43 Central African Republic 45.35 2011
44 Liberia 44.44 2016
45 Mozambique 42.66 2019
46 Sierra Leone 40.38 2019
47 Ethiopia 39.29 2014
48 Benin 37.58 2019
49 Uganda 35.73 2016
50 Madagascar 33.26 2018
51 Angola 26.86 2009
52 Guinea-Bissau 7.47 1987

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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. 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