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Primary school survival rate (including data on poorest and richest 20%)

Countries and Territories	Survival rate to the last grade of primary (survey data) (2005-2010*)
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Countries and Territories	Total		Male		Female		Urban		Rural		Ratio of urban to rural	Poorest		Richest		Ratio of richest to poorest
Afghanistan	90	x	92	x	86	x	91	x	90	x	1.01	82	x	95	x	1.15
Albania	100		99		100		100		99		1.01	99		100		1.01
Algeria	93		93		93		95		91		1.04	88		97		1.1
Andorra
Angola	83	x	84	x	82	x	84	x	80	x	1.06	72	x	93	x	1.29
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1
Bahamas
Bahrain	99	x	98	x	100	x
Bangladesh	92		92		95.1		94		93.4		1.01	89.9		97.2		1.08
Barbados
Belarus	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1
Belgium
Belize	98		97		99		97		98		0.99	98		98		1
Benin	89		91		87		93		87		1.07	86		95		1.11
Bhutan	94		91		96		98		92		1.06	90		97		1.08
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	96		97		95		98
Bosnia and Herzegovina	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1
Botswana
Brazil	88
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso	89		87		91		96		84		1.14	88		97		1.1
Burundi	82		83		81		91		81		1.12	73		90		1.24
Cambodia	92		92		92		93		92		1.02	90		96		1.07
Cameroon	87		87		86		91		83		1.1	75		96		1.29
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic	62		65		60		67		58		1.15	47		76		1.64
Chad	94	x	95	x	93	x	97	x	91	x	1.06	100	x	90	x	0.9
Chile
China
Colombia	95		94		96		96		93		1.03	90		98		1.09
Comoros	19	x	17	x	21	x	13	x	21	x	0.61	28	x	15	x	0.54
Congo	93		93		92		92		93		1	90		96		1.06
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire	90		92		88		92		89		1.03	85		96		1.12
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1
Democratic Republic of the Congo	75		77		73		81		73		1.11	73		89		1.22
Denmark
Djibouti	92		92		93		92		97		0.95
Dominica
Dominican Republic	78		77		79		77		79		0.98
Ecuador
Egypt	99		99		99		99		99		1.01	97		100		1.03
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia	84		81		87		92		82		1.13	79		88		1.11
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia	93		97		96		98		95		1.03	97		97		1.01
Georgia	98		98		99		99		98		1.01	97		99		1.02
Germany
Ghana	81		81		81		80		81		0.99
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea	96		97		96		98		95		1.03	93		97		1.05
Guinea-Bissau	79		83		77		90		71		1.26	66		93		1.41
Guyana	100		100		100		98		100		0.98	100		98		0.98
Haiti	85		85		85		89		82		1.09	76		96		1.26
Holy See
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India	95		95		94		96		94		1.01	89		100		1.12
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq	93		94		91
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica	99		99		99
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan	100		100		100		100		99		1.01
Kenya	96		96		97		99		96		1.03	89		100		1.12
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan	99		100		99		99		100		0.99	99		100		1.01
Lao People's Democratic Republic	65		64		67		74					56		79		1.39
Latvia
Lebanon	93	x	91	x	95	x
Lesotho	84	x	81	x	88	x	97	x	82	x	1.19	71	x	98	x	1.37
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar	89		88		89		94		88		1.08	80		96		1.2
Malawi	81		82		81		90		80		1.13	80		93		1.16
Malaysia
Maldives	99		99		100		99		99		1	99		100		1.01
Mali	96		96		97		97		95		1.02	94		97		1.04
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania	77		80		75		82		73		1.13	61		90		1.48
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Monaco
Mongolia	97		97		97		100		95		1.05	93		100		1.08
Montenegro	97		96		98		96		100		0.96	91		100		1.1
Morocco
Mozambique	60		64		56		71		53		1.33	47		85		1.83
Myanmar	100	x	99	x	100	x	100	x	100	x	1	100	x	100	x	1
Namibia	89		89		89		91		88		1.03	82		98		1.18
Nauru
Nepal	95		95		95		93		95		0.98	92		96		1.04
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua	56	x	50	x	63	x	67	x	43	x	1.55	31	x	89	x	2.92
Niger	88		87		89		92		86		1.07	82		92		1.11
Nigeria	98		98		98		98
Niue
Norway
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru	95		96		94		96		94		1.02	92		96		1.04
Philippines	90	x	87	x	93	x	94	x	87	x	1.08	79	x	99	x	1.25
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Republic of Korea
Republic of Moldova	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		99		0.99
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda	76		74		78		79		75		1.05	69		80		1.16
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe	84		85		83		92		76		1.21	79		99		1.25
Saudi Arabia
Senegal	93		94		91		93		92		1.01	90		96		1.07
Serbia	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1
Seychelles
Sierra Leone	94		95		94		96		93		1.04	90		96		1.07
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia	85		86		83		91		71		1.29	63		92		1.47
South Africa
South Sudan^
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan^
Suriname	92		88		96		93					83		100		1.21
Swaziland	74		73		74		77		73		1.06	74		84		1.14
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic	100		100		100		100		100		1
Tajikistan	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1.01
Thailand	99		99		99		99		99		1	98		100		1.02
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	100		100		100		100		100		1	99		100		1.01
Timor-Leste	91		91		90		83		93		0.9	97		73		0.76
Togo	89		90		89		90		89		1.01	86		93		1.07
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago	98		97		99							98		98		0.99
Tunisia
Turkey	95	x	97	x	92	x	95	x	93	x	1.03	89	x	100	x	1.12
Turkmenistan	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1
Tuvalu
Uganda	72		71		73		84		70		1.19	61		85		1.39
Ukraine	100		100		100		100		100		1	100		100		1
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United Republic of Tanzania	91	x	91	x	91	x	95	x	90	x	1.06	85	x	98	x	1.15
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan	100		100		99		100		99		1
Vanuatu	88		86		91		95		87		1.09	70		97		1.38
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	82	x	80	x	85	x						60	x	96	x	1.59
Viet Nam	98		98		97		98		97		1	95		98		1.03
Yemen	73		75		71		88		67		1.33	69		88		1.27
Zambia	87		88		85		88		85		1.03
Zimbabwe	79		79		79		88		77		1.15	68		94		1.37
MEMORANDUM
Sudan and South Sudan^	56	x	53	x	58	x	67	x	41	x	1.62	21	x	80	x	3.77

SUMMARY INDICATORS
Africa	87		87		87		92		82		1.1	79		92		1.2
Sub-Saharan Africa	86		86		86		91		81		1.1	76		91		1.2
Eastern and Southern Africa	81		81		82		88		80		1.1	73		90		1.2
West and Central Africa	90		90		89		92		82		1.1	80		93		1.2
Middle East and North Africa	93		93		92		-		-		-	-		-		-
Asia	94	**	95	**	95	**	96	**	95	**	1	90	**	99	**	1.1
South Asia	94		95		94		95		94		1	89		99		1.1
East Asia and Pacific	-		-		-		-		-		-	-		-		-
Latin America and Caribbean	-		-		-		-		-		-	-		-		-
CEE/CIS	-		-		-		-		100		-	-		-		-
Industrialized countries	-		-		-		-		-		-	-		-		-
Developing countries	91	**	92	**	91	**	94	**	90	**	1	86	**	97	**	1.1
Least developed countries	83		83		84		88		82		1.1	78		91		1.2
World	91	**	92	**	91	**	-		90	**	-	-		-		-
Survival rate to last primary grade – Percentage of children entering the first grade of primary school who eventually reach the last grade of primary school. All data refer to official International Standard Classifications of Education (ISCED) for the primary and secondary education levels and thus may not directly correspond to a country-specific school system. Notes ^ Due to the cession in July 2011 of the Republic of South Sudan from the Republic of the Sudan, and its subsequent admission to the UN on 14 July 2011, disaggregated data for Sudan and South Sudan as separate States are not yet available for most indicators. Aggregated data presented are for Sudan pre-cession (see Memorandum item). – Data not available. x Data refer to years or periods other than those specified in the column heading. Such data are not included in the calculation of regional and global averages. y Data differ from the standard definition and are included in the calculation of regional and global averages. * Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified in the column heading. ** Excludes China.