Persistence to last grade of primary, female (% of cohort) - Country Ranking - Europe

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: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Spain 99.95 2018
2 Portugal 99.88 2018
3 Italy 99.86 2018
4 Slovenia 99.86 2018
5 Montenegro 99.84 2019
6 Turkey 99.83 2018
7 Denmark 99.82 2018
8 Austria 99.80 2018
9 Sweden 99.74 2018
10 United Kingdom 99.70 2018
11 Estonia 99.69 2018
12 Switzerland 99.62 2018
13 Czech Republic 99.55 2018
14 Norway 99.48 2018
15 Poland 99.45 2018
16 Finland 99.45 2018
17 Hungary 99.21 2018
18 Cyprus 99.02 2016
19 Liechtenstein 99.00 2017
20 Greece 98.91 2018
21 Croatia 98.83 2018
22 Belarus 98.74 2017
23 Ukraine 98.68 2019
24 Slovak Republic 98.30 2018
25 Iceland 98.14 2016
26 Serbia 97.85 2019
27 Malta 97.80 2018
28 San Marino 97.77 2019
29 Lithuania 97.69 2018
30 North Macedonia 97.58 2017
31 Monaco 97.49 2020
32 Moldova 97.11 2019
33 Latvia 97.11 2018
34 Germany 96.26 2012
35 Netherlands 96.07 1984
36 Bulgaria 95.66 2018
37 Romania 94.38 2018
38 Bosnia and Herzegovina 94.02 2019
39 Albania 90.06 2019
40 France 89.06 1971
41 Luxembourg 84.22 2016
42 Belgium 79.88 1987
43 Andorra 70.15 2016

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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. 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