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

Persistence to last grade of primary, male (% of cohort) in OECD members was 96.54 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 96.54 in 2019, while its lowest value was 82.61 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 84.34
1971 83.19
1972 83.21
1973 82.61
1974 82.71
1975 83.82
1976 84.44
1977 84.08
1978 85.03
1979 84.62
1980 84.51
1981 85.50
1982 86.80
1983 87.37
1984 87.09
1985 88.71
1986 88.53
1987 87.80
1988 88.27
1989 88.12
1990 88.93
1991 90.43
1992 89.32
1993 90.22
1994 89.41
1995 90.70
1996 90.09
1997 90.09
1998 90.64
1999 91.30
2000 91.09
2001 91.93
2002 92.63
2003 92.90
2004 93.60
2005 93.57
2006 93.82
2007 93.42
2008 93.72
2009 94.41
2010 94.57
2011 94.04
2012 93.26
2013 94.16
2014 94.70
2015 94.61
2016 96.47
2017 95.94
2018 96.47
2019 96.54

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