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Repetition rate in Grade 5 of lower secondary general education, both sexes (%) by country

Number of repeaters in a given grade in a given school year, expressed as a percentage of enrolment in that grade the previous school year. Divide the number of repeaters in a given grade in school year t+1 by the number of pupils from the same cohort enrolled in the same grade in the previous school year t.

Countries reporting
23
Highest
31.0%
Brunei Darussalam
Lowest
0.0%
Republic of Moldova
Median
0.5%
Years covered
49
1970–2018
Data points
359

What the numbers show

Repetition rate in Grade 5 of lower secondary general education, both sexes (%) is currently reported for 23 countries. The highest value is 31.0% in Brunei Darussalam; the lowest is 0.0% in Republic of Moldova.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.5%, and the mean is 3.6%.

Over the past decade 6 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Russian Federation (up 196.2%), and the largest decrease in Azerbaijan (down 99.5%).

Repetition rate in Grade 5 of lower secondary general education, both: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Brunei Darussalam 31.0% 1993 up 6.0% falling
2 Sierra Leone 13.2% 1978 up 28.1% rising
3 Hong Kong, China 10.1% 1995 down 49.6% falling
4 Rwanda 9.9% 1990 — rising
5 Syrian Arab Republic 7.5% 2012 down 63.2% falling
6 Germany 3.9% 2017 down 7.2% falling
7 Sri Lanka 1.5% 1991 down 96.0% volatile
8 Palestine, State of 1.2% 2018 down 31.4% falling
9 Lithuania 0.9% 2017 down 19.7% volatile
10 Russian Federation 0.8% 2016 up 196.2% rising
11 Slovakia 0.5% 2017 up 75.4% rising
12 Georgia 0.5% 2002 up 17.3% falling
13 Armenia 0.4% 2018 — volatile
14 Mongolia 0.2% 1995 — volatile
15 Tajikistan 0.1% 2016 down 62.5% volatile
16 Malta 0.1% 2010 down 69.1% volatile
17 Belarus 0.0% 2017 up 193.7% volatile
18 Kazakhstan 0.0% 2018 down 85.9% volatile
19 Ukraine 0.0% 2018 down 9.6% volatile
20 Kyrgyzstan 0.0% 2018 down 72.8% volatile
21 Azerbaijan 0.0% 2018 down 99.5% volatile
22 Uzbekistan 0.0% 2018 down 95.4% volatile
23 Republic of Moldova 0.0% 2018 — volatile

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Indicator
Repetition rate in Grade 5 of lower secondary general education, both sexes (%)
Unit
%
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
23 places, 359 data points, 1970–2018
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Number of repeaters in a given grade in a given school year, expressed as a percentage of enrolment in that grade the previous school year. Divide the number of repeaters in a given grade in school year t+1 by the number of pupils from the same cohort enrolled in the same grade in the previous school year t.