OECD members - Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in OECD members was 97.53 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 97.53 in 2018, while its lowest value was 83.31 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 84.25
1971 83.98
1972 83.92
1973 83.31
1974 83.41
1975 84.43
1976 86.54
1977 86.15
1978 87.31
1979 86.71
1980 86.82
1981 87.44
1982 89.04
1983 89.33
1984 89.68
1985 90.16
1986 89.85
1987 89.42
1988 89.78
1989 89.14
1990 90.10
1991 91.24
1992 90.30
1993 90.85
1994 91.01
1995 92.31
1996 92.02
1997 92.15
1998 92.84
1999 92.65
2000 92.48
2001 93.26
2002 93.97
2003 94.26
2004 94.83
2005 95.26
2006 95.43
2007 94.92
2008 94.97
2009 95.45
2010 95.38
2011 95.05
2012 94.09
2013 95.16
2014 95.74
2015 96.04
2016 97.23
2017 96.98
2018 97.53
2019 97.53

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