Children Data Bank
For India

Retention rates at All-India level cohort in class V and class VIII
of total and girls for the years 1964-65 to 1999-2000
(in percentage)

                                                                             Class V                                            Class VIII
                                        ------------------------------------------------------      ------------------ -----------------------------------------
Year
Total
Girls
Total
Girls
1964-65
37.10
32.00
-
-
1974-75
36.80
33.30
21.30
16.30
1984-85
50.38
47.54
35.65
29.60
1990-91
61.04
56.41
39.10
34.87
1998-99*
60.26
58.68
43.18
39.91
1999-2000*
61.33
57.72
NA
NA
Notes :    *        Provisional
                NA    Not Available
Source :    Ibid
Index: Indian Data

Index: International Data

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