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The state has registered
impressive improvement in human development since the mid-1970s and scores well
in its human development indicators. It has lower birth, death and infant
mortality rates than the country as a whole. Its population is currently growing
at an annual rate of 1.3 per cent compared to the all-India rate of 1.8 per
cent. The Human Development Index (HDI), recently computed for Sikkim,has shown steady improvement since 1991, although the rate of increase has
slowed down between 1995 and 1998. The HDI which was 0.454 in 1991 rose to 0.509
in 1995 and to 0.532 in 1998 (chart 2.1). The East District has the highest HDI
scores, followed by the South, West and the North.
Source: The Sikkim Human
Development Report, 2000
The HDI has been
calculated as the average value of the income index, the life expectancy
index and educational attainment index. These in turn are based on life
expectancy at birth, adult literacy rate, enrolment ratio, per capita income
and adjusted per capita income. See Lama (2000).This is the literacy rate
according to the National Sample Survey,1996-97. The 1991 census stimates
the literacy rate at 56.94 per cent
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