Share of grade 5 students who can read a grade 2 level paragraph India 2008-2018
In the past ten years from 2008 to 2018, the level of reading in India’s rural private schools have not seen any significant improvement. In 2018, the share of grade five students who could read a grade two level paragraph was about 65 percent. This was roughly a two percent improvement from 2016. Compared to 2008, the share has declined by about two percent.