Facts
Referring to the 2001
census there are 1,027 million people living in
India, among these there are 167.2
million Dalits or about 16.3% of the
population.[1]
Overall 27,070
crimes against Dalits (reported under
scheduled caste or SC respectively in the Indian criminal statistics)
were counted in 2006 - one every 19.4 minutes.[2]
673 Dalits were killed
in India in 2006, 3760 were hurt, 1217 were raped.[2]
27% of the Dalits belong to the poorest fifth of the Indian population,
only 10.2% belong to the richest one.[3]
6.3% of the Dalits finished school after 12th class, the average in
India is 12.0%.[3]
43.8%
of the female and 72.4% of the male Dalits are able to read and write,
the average in India is 55.1% and 78.1% respectively.[3]
66.4 out of thousand neonates of a Dalit mother die within a short period
of time after the birth, the average in India is 57.0.[3]
81.5%
of Dalit children are smaller than the average coeval children of the
2006 WHO International Refference Population, the average in India is
71.7%.[3]
In 37.8% of the villages Dalits have to sit seprately in school.[1]
In 37% of the villages the Dalits wages are paid from distance to avoid
physical contact.[1]
64% of the Dalits in the villages are not allowed to enter the temple.[1]
11.78% of the Indian urban population are Dalits, their share in the urban slums is
17.4%.[1]
In 1999-00 38.47% of the Dalits in the cities lived below the poverty
line, the average among the urban population is 23.62%.[4]
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[1] from 'Caste an eye on the Dalits an India'
[2] from 'Crime in India 2006'
[3] from 'National Family Health Survey 2005-06'
[4] from
'Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment - Annual Report 2006-07'