India-Madeeha

India is located in the Indian subcontinent and was created in 1947 after British India partitioned into Pakistan and India. The world’s attention has been on India because of India’s booming economy and because of its overpopulation. The education in India has made significant strides as primary enrollment rates and literacy rates have seen improvements over the past few years. However, India still has a long way to go and issues such as the size of India and high rates of poverty are huge challenges that the country will have to navigate its way through, in order to effectively reform the education system.

Students typically enter primary school at age 6 and primary school lasts for 5 years. The primary net enrollment rate for males and females was 89.81 in 2007. The pupil to teacher ratio was 40.20 in 2004. The percentage of female repeaters was 3.4 and for males it was 3.5 in 2007. The demand from males for primary school was 65,075,492 and for females it was 59,620,840 in 2009.\ The school life approximation for secondary students in India is around 10 years. The transition rate for males and females into secondary schools was 85.1 in 2006. The pupil to teacher ratio in secondary school was 37.70 in 2004. The secondary net enrollment ratio was 57.03 for males and females in 2007. The demand for secondary schools by males was 89,066,343 in 2009 and for females it was 81,453,760. The tertiary gross enrollment ratio for males and females was 13.48 in 2007. The Outbound Mobility Ratio was 1.10 in 2007. The number of males enrolled in tertiary schools was 59,222,202 and for females was 54,350,698 in 2009. In 2004, the percentage of primary teaching staff that was female was 44.0. The secondary teaching staff percentage that was female was much lower for that year at 33.9 Educational Expenditures as a percentage of GDP in 2006 was 3.2%. The Adult Literacy rate for the total population was 66.0% for 2007 and the total youth literacy rate was 82.1% for that same year.
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 * __Secondary Education__**
 * __Tertiary Education__**
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