Children Data Bank
For India

Official enrollment and dropout rates from primary school
and adult literacy rates
(1991 and 1993)
(Percent)


 
State
Gross enrollment rate,1993
Dropout rate, 1993
Male                         Female 
Literacy rate
(ages 7 and above), 1991
Male                           Female
Andhra Pradesh
93
 42                           42 55                           33
Assam
93
 ---                          --- 62                           43
Bihar
73
 62                           66 53                           23 
Gujarat
106
 42                          51  73                           48
Haryana
84
   2                            7 69                           40
Karnataka
119
 37                          44  67                           44 
Kerala
96
   0                            0  94                           86 
Madhya Pradesh
98
 23                           35 58                           29
Maharashtra
119
 24                          32  77                           52
Orissa
101
 53                          52 63                           35
Punjab
85
 21                           23 66                           50
Rajasthan
85
 35                           56 55                           20
Tamil Nadu
144
 16                           18 74                           51
Uttar Pradesh
76
 20                           20 56                           25
West Bengal
104
 36                           46 68                          47
All India
96
 35                           39 64                         39 
----  Not available
Source: For gross enrollment rates. NCERT 1995; for dropout rates, India, Ministry of human Resource Development, 1993a; for literacy rates, Nanda 1992.
Index: Indian Data

Index: International Data

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