Persistence to grade 5, female (% of cohort) - Country Ranking

Definition: Persistence to grade 5 (percentage of cohort reaching grade 5) is the share of children enrolled in the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5. The estimate is based on the reconstructed cohort method.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Ireland 100.00 1994
1 Sweden 100.00 2018
3 Japan 99.99 2016
4 Spain 99.99 2018
5 Indonesia 99.98 2017
6 Chile 99.97 2018
7 Thailand 99.95 2017
8 Estonia 99.93 2018
9 Uruguay 99.90 2015
10 Portugal 99.88 2018
11 Italy 99.86 2018
12 Slovenia 99.86 2018
13 Montenegro 99.84 2019
14 Iceland 99.83 2018
15 Denmark 99.82 2018
16 Singapore 99.81 2018
17 Sri Lanka 99.80 2018
18 China 99.79 2019
19 Egypt 99.75 2018
20 Norway 99.73 2018
21 United Kingdom 99.70 2018
22 South Africa 99.65 2018
23 Switzerland 99.64 2018
24 Czech Republic 99.55 2018
25 Brunei 99.50 2019
26 Macao SAR, China 99.50 2019
27 Canada 99.49 1999
28 Poland 99.45 2018
29 Finland 99.45 2018
30 Greece 99.42 2018
31 Philippines 99.40 2018
32 Korea 99.34 2018
33 Mongolia 99.30 2018
34 Cyprus 99.22 2016
35 Georgia 99.11 2019
36 Liechtenstein 99.00 2017
37 Bolivia 98.95 2018
38 Andorra 98.82 2016
39 Oman 98.64 2016
40 Israel 98.59 2018
41 Hong Kong SAR, China 98.48 2019
42 St. Kitts and Nevis 98.37 2014
43 Eswatini 98.16 2018
44 Mexico 98.13 2018
45 Vietnam 98.12 2014
46 Belgium 97.98 2018
47 Bahrain 97.97 2018
48 Malta 97.80 2018
49 San Marino 97.77 2019
50 North Macedonia 97.58 2017
51 Botswana 97.50 2012
52 Monaco 97.49 2020
53 Morocco 97.48 2019
54 Colombia 97.40 2018
55 Latvia 97.28 2018
56 Costa Rica 97.26 2015
57 Suriname 97.15 2018
58 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 97.14 2017
59 Tunisia 96.97 2016
60 Guyana 96.85 2011
61 Mauritius 96.70 2018
62 Cuba 96.53 2019
63 Seychelles 96.47 2017
64 Iran 96.44 2016
65 Luxembourg 96.37 2016
66 Jordan 96.23 2019
67 Timor-Leste 96.22 2018
68 Netherlands 96.21 1984
69 St. Lucia 96.02 2019
70 Qatar 95.94 2019
71 Ecuador 95.90 2019
72 Zimbabwe 95.10 2019
73 Argentina 95.00 2018
74 Peru 94.49 2016
75 Romania 94.38 2018
76 New Caledonia 94.17 1989
77 Bosnia and Herzegovina 94.02 2019
78 Trinidad and Tobago 93.93 2009
79 Grenada 93.80 2017
80 Namibia 93.51 2017
81 Cabo Verde 93.47 2015
82 Malaysia 93.42 2018
83 United Arab Emirates 93.17 2012
84 Fiji 93.17 2015
85 Kuwait 92.63 2018
86 Bhutan 92.52 2017
87 Algeria 91.89 2018
88 Syrian Arab Republic 91.78 2001
89 Vanuatu 91.73 2019
90 Saudi Arabia 91.50 2013
91 Tonga 91.50 2019
92 Barbados 91.04 2010
93 Panama 90.34 2013
94 Albania 90.06 2019
95 Belize 89.94 2019
96 Antigua and Barbuda 89.58 2014
97 Lebanon 89.53 2019
98 Lesotho 89.45 2015
99 Dominican Republic 89.24 2019
100 France 89.06 1971
101 The Gambia 88.73 2019
102 São Tomé and Principe 88.52 2010
103 Djibouti 88.31 2020
104 Sudan 88.26 2017
105 Samoa 88.18 2019
106 Paraguay 88.16 2011
107 El Salvador 87.97 2017
108 Cambodia 87.77 2019
109 Venezuela 87.44 2016
110 Tanzania 87.18 2019
111 Senegal 87.16 2019
112 India 87.03 2018
113 Ghana 86.72 2017
114 Puerto Rico 85.62 2014
115 Libya 85.49 1980
116 Lao PDR 84.49 2019
117 Côte d'Ivoire 84.07 2015
118 Honduras 83.62 2019
119 Guatemala 82.82 2019
120 Solomon Islands 82.79 2018
121 Kenya 82.76 2004
122 Chad 80.97 2017
123 Rwanda 80.39 2018
124 Eritrea 79.78 2017
125 Congo 79.35 2007
126 Cayman Islands 78.17 2004
127 Niger 78.11 2015
128 Cameroon 78.03 2018
129 Comoros 78.03 2013
130 Dominica 77.73 2014
131 Myanmar 77.45 2009
132 Equatorial Guinea 76.63 2011
133 Kiribati 75.03 2005
134 Nigeria 74.94 2009
135 Malawi 73.48 2018
136 Nepal 73.41 2016
137 Zambia 73.30 2012
138 Mauritania 73.27 2016
139 The Bahamas 73.27 2015
140 Burkina Faso 73.21 2019
141 Yemen 72.93 2012
142 Bangladesh 70.64 2009
143 Pakistan 70.63 2018
144 Mali 67.68 2011
145 Dem. Rep. Congo 67.60 2014
146 Guinea 65.00 2013
147 Papua New Guinea 63.97 1997
148 Iraq 63.34 1999
149 Uganda 62.16 2016
150 Gabon 61.92 1995
151 Afghanistan 60.72 1980
152 Togo 60.46 2013
153 Jamaica 59.09 2019
154 Tuvalu 57.58 2015
155 Burundi 57.27 2018
156 Central African Republic 55.99 2011
157 Mozambique 55.97 2019
158 Nicaragua 55.16 2007
159 Liberia 54.38 2016
160 Sierra Leone 49.69 2019
161 Benin 47.70 2019
162 Ethiopia 45.19 2014
163 Haiti 38.97 1985
164 Angola 36.58 2009
165 Madagascar 33.26 2018
166 Guinea-Bissau 19.59 1987
167 Hungary 0.00 2013
167 Turkey 0.00 2014

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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. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. 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