1. According to Census 2001, the child population in the age group 0-6 is 75,952,104 females per 81,911,041 males.

2. The literacy percentage in India is 54.16 females to 75.85 males.

3. Percentage decadal variation in population: 1901-11 to 1991-2001 is 5.75 in 1901-1911 to 21.34 in 1991-2001.

4. According to these estimates, there are nearly 800 million illiterate adults in the world, representing 18 per cent of the adult population.

5. Developed countries and countries in transition have literacy rates close to 99 per cent, and together account for just 1.3 per cent of the world's illiterate people

6. About a quarter of the adult population of the developing world is illiterate

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