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EDUCATION TRENDS OVER TIME

	Year	India	Pakistan	Bangladesh	Nepal	Sri Lanka	Bhutan	Maldives	South Asia (weighted average)	Developing Countries (excluding South Asia )
Adult literacy rate (%) rate
	1970	34	21	24	13	77	n/a	91a	34	44
	1995	52	38	38	28	90	42	93	49	72
annual growth	1970-95	1.7	2.4	1.9	3.1	0.6	n/a	0.1	1.7	2
Female literacy rate	1970	19	5	9	3	68	n/a	n/a	17	33
	1995	38	24	26	14	87	28	93	36	63
annual growth	1970-95	2.8	6.5	4.3	6.4	1	n/a	n/a	3	2.7
Male literacy rate	1970	47	40	47	22	86	n/a	n/a	47	55
	1995	66	50	49	41	93	56	93	62	80
annual growth	1970-95	1.4	0.9	0.17	2.5	0.3	n/a	n/a	1.1	1.5
Primary enrolment	1970	73	40	54	26	99	n/a	n/a	68	76(b)
	1993	105	65	111	107	106	73	134	100	104
annual growth	1970-93	1.6	2.1	3.1	6.3	0.29	n/a	n/a	1.7	1.3
Female Primary enrolment	1970	56	22	35	8	94	n/a	n/a	54	56(c)
	1993	91	49	105	87	105	63	133	87	100
annual growth	1970-93	2.1	3.5	4.9	10.9	0.48	n/a	n/a	2.1	2.3
Male Primary enrolment	1970	88	59	73	40	102	n/a	n/a	83	96(d)
	1993	113	80	128	129	106	82	136	110	110
annual growth	1970-93	1.1	1.3	2.4	5.2	0.16	n/a	n/a	1.2	0.6
Combine enrolment	1980	40	19	30	28	58	7	n/a	37	46
	1994	56	38	39	55	66	31	71	52	56
annual growth	1980-94	2.4	5	1.9	4.9	0.92	11	n/a	2.4	1.4

Note :
a:Year 1985 ; b : Using weighted average for different regions as classified in
World Bank 1997 d.
c= Includes only Sub Saharan Africa; South Asia , Latin America and Caribbean,
and Middle East and North Africa
d=Calculated from total and Female enrolment.
Source :
Row 1,2 and 3 : UNESCO 1995 , UNICEF 1996 f and 1997b, Haq 1997; Row 4 ,5 and
6 World Bank 1995
f:996g , 1997d and 1997e, UNESCO 1961 ; Row 7 : UNDP 1994 b and 1997 a.
Report :
Human Development in South Asia : 1988 , OUP , Karachi

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