Major State Indicators

• Assam grows 60% of India’s tea and a large proportion of oil.
• Home of India’s one-horned rhinoceros.
• Since the last 25 years militant activity of various groups has set the pace of development backwards.
• Population: 26 million
• Literacy Rate 64%
• Infant Mortality Rate: 75 deaths per 1000 live births
• Maternal Mortality Rate: 401 deaths per 100,000 live births
• Life Expectancy at birth 56 years.