Women & Men in India 2025 (Gender Data)
MoSPI's 'Women and Men in India 2025', released on 29 April 2026, is the 27th edition of the government's gender-data compendium - a single volume that pulls together how the two sexes compare across population, education, health, work and safety. Its headline is cautious optimism: the sex ratio at birth is climbing, women now out-enrol men in higher education, and rural female workforce participation has surged past 45%. A companion NITI Aayog study, 'From Borrowers to Builders', adds the money dimension - women hold a Rs 76 lakh crore credit book, yet most of the roughly 45 crore credit-eligible women still stand outside formal lending.
- Women and Men in India 2025
- MoSPI
- sex ratio at birth
- LFPR
- NITI Aayog
- From Borrowers to Builders
- gender parity
- TransUnion CIBIL
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