Other small states - Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort)

Persistence to last grade of primary, total (% of cohort) in Other small states was 72.89 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 73.25 in 2018, while its lowest value was 58.07 in 1975.

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 58.70
1971 60.17
1972 62.00
1973 64.30
1974 59.39
1975 58.07
1976 58.93
1977 59.41
1978 61.07
1979 63.38
1980 64.60
1981 64.68
1982 64.28
1983 64.27
1984 66.36
1985 65.83
1986 67.01
1987 65.95
1988 66.07
1989 66.89
1990 66.68
1991 65.91
1992 67.87
1993 72.25
1994 70.69
1995 68.28
1996 69.58
1997 70.29
1998 69.10
1999 69.13
2000 69.45
2001 69.22
2002 70.60
2003 69.13
2004 68.97
2005 69.92
2006 68.13
2007 70.37
2008 69.70
2009 70.36
2010 69.88
2011 72.09
2012 70.73
2013 72.68
2014 72.65
2015 72.70
2016 72.91
2017 73.22
2018 73.25
2019 72.89

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