Adult Education Policies in India and International Influences

With a population of 1.2 billion, India is the second most populous country in the world. It has 29 states and seven centrally administered Union territories. Although India accounts for only 2.4% of the world’s surface area, it has 16% of the world’s population. Between 2001 and 2011, the Indian population increased from 1028.74 million to 1210.8 million. 51.5% of the total population are male. The sex ratio improved from 933 in 2001 to 943 in 2011. In 2001, 27.8% of the Indian population lived in urban areas; in 2011, that figure had risen to 31.2 (Government of India 2001, 2011).