Share of children attending school in India 2021, by area
According to a survey in India from 2019 to 2021, respectively 96 percent of female and male of children aged six to 10 in urban India attended school. Meanwhile, only 64 percent of girls aged 15 to 17 residing in rural India attended school, compared to 79 percent of their counterparts in the urban region. In general, school attendance rate in urban India was higher than that in rural India.