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School Metrics

India has 1.27 billion people, 74% literacy rate.
World’s largest child and youth population is in India – 600 million are below 24 years of age. (480 million child population) There are 1.30 million schools in India.
220 million students enroll in elementary schools every academic year, more than half drop out before class VIII. Only 55 million are enrolled in secondary education (classes IX – XII)
96.7% of the age 6-14 are enrolled in schools in rural India
120 million students are outside school.
There is a shortage of 700000 teachers countrywide.
Pupil – Teacher ratio is 49.3
9% of the schools make do with 1 teacher who teaches multiple subjects and classes
Only 19% of the students are enrolled in higher education (80% in USA and 28% in China)
581 Universities and 35000 colleges enroll 20 million students in India. China has 1600 Universities and USA + Canada has over 9200 campuses.
During the past decade Government (State + Center) expenditure on education averaged 3.3 percent of the GDP.
53.4% of the 5th standard students surveyed could not read, write or solve arithmetic problems expected of children in 2nd standard.
25.4% of the 8th standard students could not read a 2nd standard textbook.
32.5% of the 2nd standard children cannot recognize letters as yet.
Percentage of schools with computers 19.6%
55.7% of schools have usable girls toilets