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Sri Lanka: Repeaters, primary, female

0.96percent · 2017+48.9% since 2007

Repeaters in primary school are the number of students enrolled in the same grade as in the previous year, as a percentage of all students enrolled in primary school. Annual figures for Sri Lanka from 1970 to 2017.

19702017

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20170.961
20160.783
20150.877
20140.865
20130.702
20120.704
20110.604
20100.625
20090.737
20080.656
20070.645
20060.823
20050.742
20030.681
20011.155
19984.199
19925.768
19916.301
19906.847
19896.165
19877.623
19866.601
19858.823
19838.7
197019.667

Source

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

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World Bank (2026). Repeaters, primary, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-repeaters-primary-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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