The Relationship between Female Education and Economic Development

Aabda Fatma

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i05.59126

The Relationship between Female Education and Economic Development

Author(s)	Aabda Fatma
Country	India
Abstract	Female education ensures not only overall development of the country, but educated generation next. Gender disparity in education is still a problem for our country where female constitute roughly half of the country’s population. The present study is an attempt to find out the relationship between female education (measured by female literacy) and economic development (measured by increase in per capita Gross Domestic Product, Human Development Index (HDI), increase in Female Labour force participation rate, reduction in mortality rates, reduction in fertility rates) in India through tables, bar diagram and graphs to show the impact of female education on economic development. The data for these variables over the time period 1991 to 2023 clearly indicating a rising trends in female literacy, Per capita GDP, HDI and Female labour force participation rate over time and a continuously declining trends in Mortality rates and Fertility rates during the given time period that is showing a positive relationship between female literacy and economic development. When economy gets more developed, Per capita GDP, HDI, Female labour force participation increases and on the other hand Mortality rate and Fertility rates decline. Female education brings about increase in national productivity because females who are educated have better employment opportunities and so they earn more to improve the status of family and because educated women contribute valuable ideas to national development. When females are educated, fertility rates and mortality rates are also reduced as educated women are more capable of taking their decisions independently and they take better care of their health and nutrition status of their family as well and consequently contribute to the economic development of the country because it enhances the productive capacity of human capital. This study also shows the trends of female literacy over time which implies that there has been considerable increase in the rate of literacy of females in the last three decades. So in order to improve female literacy, various initiatives taken by the governments and current policies have also been explained.
Keywords	Female literacy, Gross Domestic Product per Capita, Human Development Index, Fertility Rate, Mortality rate, Female Labour Force Participation Rate, Economic Development.
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On	2025-10-30
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i05.59126

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