The chart shows the female adult literacy rate (per cent of women aged 15+) and the female youth literacy rate (per cent of women aged 15–24) in India.
Which reading of the chart is correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Female youth literacy is higher than female adult literacy in every year, and the gap between the two has widened.
Read both lines year by year. Youth literacy is above adult literacy each year, and the gap grows:
1990: 54.2 - 37.9 = 16.3 points
2000: 19.4 points
2011: 23 points
2017-18: 24 points
Option (1) Female youth literacy is higher than female adult literacy in every year, and the gap between the two has widened. — Correct. Both parts hold.
Option (2) Female youth literacy is higher than female adult literacy in every year, and the gap between the two has narrowed. — Incorrect. The gap widened from 16.3 to 24 points.
Option (3) Female adult literacy rose by more percentage points than female youth literacy between 1990 and 2017–18. — Incorrect. Adult literacy rose by 28.1 points (37.9 to 66); youth literacy by 35.8 points (54.2 to 90).
Option (4) Female youth literacy more than doubled between 1990 and 2017–18. — Incorrect. From 54.2 to 90 is about 1.7 times, not double.
NCERT (2026-27): “Educational Achievements in India: Generally, educational achievements in a country are indicated in terms of adult literacy level, primary education completion rate and youth literacy rate. These statistics for the last two decades are given above in Table 4.2.”
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