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SOUTH ASIA: GENDER AND EDUCATION
| Female adult literacy | Female Primary age group enrolment (adjusted) | Female secondary age group (adjusted) | Female tertiary Students | Female tertiary Science enrolment | |||||||||
| Rate (% age 15 and above) | Index (1985=100) | As % of Male rate | Rate (of %Primary School age girls) | Index (1985=100) | As % of Male ratio | Ratio (of %Secondary School age girls) | Index (1985=100) | As % of Male ratio | Per 1,00,000-women | Index (1985=100) | As % of males | (as % of female tertiary students) | |
| Country/Year | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 | 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 1994-97(b) | 1994-97(b) | 1994-97(b) | 1994-97(b) |
| Bangladesh | 28.6 | 143 | 56 | 69.6 | 149 | 87 | 15.6 | 125 | 58 | 129 (c) | 71 (c) | 20 (c) | - |
| Bhutan | - | - | - | 12.3 | 119 | 88 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| India | 43.5 | 139 | 65 | 71 | 111 | 86 | 48 | 133 | 68 | 479 | 133 | 61 | 30.4 |
| Maldives | 96 | 104 | 100 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nepal | 21.7 | 216 | 38 | 62.5 | 167 | 67 | 39.7 | 187 | 58 | 274 (c) | - | 32 (c) | - |
| Pakistan | 28.9 | 168 | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 220 (c) | 153 (c) | 59 9c) | - |
| Sri Lanka | 88.3 | 107 | 94 | 99.9 | 100 | 100 | 79.3 | 112 | 109 | 388 | 128 | 69 | 31.4 |
Note: a=Data
refer to enrolment in natural and applied sciences. b=: Data refer to
most recent year available during the period specified in the column heading
c=Data refer to a year or period other that specified in the column heading.
Sources :Human Development , Report 2000,
UNDP, OUP New Delhi , 2000.