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

Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) in World was 84.55 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 84.55 in 2019, while its lowest value was 66.52 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/)

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Year Value
1970 67.93
1971 67.35
1972 67.10
1973 66.52
1974 66.78
1975 67.45
1976 68.53
1977 69.89
1978 69.59
1979 69.73
1980 69.31
1981 69.62
1982 70.10
1983 70.42
1984 70.30
1985 71.03
1986 71.94
1987 73.33
1988 73.37
1989 73.43
1990 74.66
1991 74.84
1992 75.15
1993 75.74
1994 76.02
1995 76.96
1996 77.00
1997 77.23
1998 77.55
1999 77.42
2000 77.15
2001 78.68
2002 77.22
2003 76.20
2004 75.83
2005 75.14
2006 75.69
2007 76.50
2008 78.47
2009 78.30
2010 78.09
2011 78.33
2012 76.91
2013 76.95
2014 81.69
2015 82.27
2016 81.00
2017 82.86
2018 82.37
2019 84.55

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