Table 2 Percentage of children attending school by sex and age (2017–18), India.

From: Predictors of the gender gap in household educational spending among school and college-going children in India

Age of children (years)

Boys

Girls

Persons

% Point gap

N

%

N

%

N

%

6

5251

89.8

4121

87.2

9372

88.6

2.6

7

5278

96.4

4154

95.8

9433

96.1

0.6

8

6454

96.7

4734

96.2

11,178

96.5

0.5

9

4546

98.1

3303

96.5

7840

97.4

1.6

10

6769

96.9

4692

94.4

11,441

95.8

2.6

11

4754

97.2

3392

95.9

8135

96.6

1.3

12

6732

95.0

5077

93.2

11,802

94.2

1.8

13

4615

93.2

3853

92.2

8475

92.7

1.0

14

5512

89.9

4372

88.0

9885

89.0

2.0

15

5002

81.1

3640

81.1

8633

81.1

0.0

16

4448

75.7

3150

72.4

7587

74.2

3.3

17

3634

69.0

2793

66.3

6425

67.8

2.8

18

3622

50.8

2463

46.5

6072

48.9

4.3

19

2156

48.7

1349

38.8

3494

44.2

9.9

20

2124

33.1

1340

24.9

3454

29.2

8.2

21

1035

26.5

731

20.1

1763

23.3

6.3

22

1007

16.7

573

10.4

1573

13.6

6.4

610

28,298

95.55

21,004

93.86

49,264

94.8

1.7

1115

26,614

91.06

20,335

89.87

46,931

90.52

1.2

1617

8081

72.54

5943

69.35

14,012

71.11

3.2

1822

9943

35.63

6456

27.68

16,357

31.9

8.0

622

72,937

74.5

53,738

69.88

1,26,564

72.41

4.6

  1. % gap is the difference in the percentages of male and female school attendance.
  2. Bold values represent total attendance status across age groups and gender in India. Earlier the values were provided in single ages.