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Botswana: Persistence to grade 5, total

96.30percent · 2012+11.2% since 1999

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. Annual figures for Botswana from 1970 to 2012.

19702012

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201296.301
200896.593
200779.604
200678.846
200589.056
200489.671
200390.166
200289.351
200188.251
200089.028
199986.602
199887.556
199589.922
199486.802
199388.715
199289.186
199184.034
199094.222
198986.231
198789.832
198691.983
198589.638
198491.445
198387.161
198289.1
198186.396
198082.377
197994.968
197888.664
197784.587
197690.624
197588.087
197490.146
197390.879
197064.036

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Published by World Bank, produced by UNESCO. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Persistence to grade 5, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-persistence-to-grade-5-total (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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