List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate
Indian subdivisions by literacy
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Recent estimates
State or UT | Census 2011[2] | NSO survey (2017)[3] | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average | Male | Female | Average | Male | Female | |
![]() | 74.04 | 82.14 | 65.46 | 77.7 | 84.7 | 70.3 |
A&N islands[UT][citation needed] | 86.63 | 90.27 | 82.43 | 86.27 | 90.11 | 81.84 |
Andhra Pradesh[a] | 67.02 | 74.88 | 59.15 | 66.9 | 80
| 59.5 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 65.38 | 72.55 | 57.70 | 66.95 | 73.4 | 59.50 |
Assam | 72.19 | 77.85 | 66.27 | 85.9 | 90.1 | 81.2 |
Bihar | 61.80 | 71.20 | 51.50 | 70.9 | 79.7 | 60.5 |
Chhattisgarh | 70.28 | 80.27 | 60.24 | 77.3 | 85.4 | 68.8 |
Chandigarh[UT] | 86.05 | 89.99 | 81.19 | 86.43 | 90.54 | 81.38 |
Dadra and Nagar Haveli[UT] | 76.34 | 85.17 | 64.32 | 77.65 | 86.46 | 77.65 |
Daman & Diu[UT] | 87.10 | 91.54 | 79.55 | 87.07 | 91.48 | 87.07 |
Delhi[UT] | 86.21 | 90.94 | 80.76 | 88.70 | 82.40 | 93.70 |
Goa | 88.70 | 92.65 | 84.66 | 87.4 | 92.81 | 81.84 |
Gujarat | 78.03 | 85.75 | 69.68 | 82.4 | 89.5 | 74.8 |
Haryana | 75.55 | 84.06 | 65.94 | 80.4 | 88.0 | 71.3 |
Himachal Pradesh | 82.80 | 89.53 | 75.93 | 86.6 | 92.9 | 80.5 |
Jammu and Kashmir | 67.16 | 76.75 | 56.43 | 77.3 | 85.7 | 68.0 |
Jharkhand | 66.41 | 76.84 | 55.42 | 74.3 | 83.0 | 64.7 |
Karnataka | 75.36 | 82.47 | 68.08 | 77.2 | 83.4 | 70.5 |
Kerala | 94.00 | 96.11 | 91.07 | 96.2 | 97.4 | 95.2 |
Lakshadweep[UT] | 91.85 | 95.56 | 87.95 | 92.28 | 96.11 | 88.25 |
Madhya Pradesh | 69.32 | 78.73 | 59.24 | 73.7 | 81.2 | 65.5 |
Maharashtra | 82.34 | 88.38 | 75.87 | 84.8 | 90.7 | 78.4 |
Manipur | 76.94 | 83.58 | 70.26 | 79.85 | 86.49 | 73.17 |
Meghalya | 74.43 | 75.95 | 72.89 | 75.48 | 77.17 | 73.78 |
Mizoram | 91.33 | 93.35 | 89.27 | 91.58 | 93.72 | 89.40 |
Nagaland | 79.55 | 82.75 | 76.11 | 80.11 | 83.29 | 80.11 |
Odisha | 72.87 | 81.59 | 64.01 | 77.3 | 84.0 | 70.3 |
Puducherry[UT] | 85.85 | 91.26 | 80.67 | 86.55 | 92.12 | 86.55 |
Punjab | 75.84 | 80.44 | 70.73 | 83.7 | 88.5 | 78.5 |
Rajasthan | 66.11 | 79.19 | 52.12 | 69.7 | 80.8 | 57.6 |
Sikkim | 81.42 | 86.55 | 75.61 | 82.2 | 87.29 | 76.43 |
Tamil Nadu | 80.09 | 86.77 | 73.44 | 82.9 | 87.9 | 77.9 |
Telangana | – | 72.8 | 80.5 | 65.1 | ||
Tripura | 87.22 | 92.53 | 82.73 | 87.75 | 92.18 | 83.15 |
Uttarakhand | 78.82 | 87.40 | 70.01 | 87.6 | 94.3 | 80.7 |
Uttar Pradesh | 67.68 | 77.28 | 57.18 | 73.0 | 81.8 | 63.4 |
West Bengal | 76.36 | 81.69 | 70.54 | 80.50 | 84.80 | 76.10 |
^ Administered as a Union territory directly by Central government.
Timeline by Census
State/UT | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A&N islands | 30.30 | 40.07 | 51.15 | 63.19 | 73.02 | 81.30 | 86.63 |
Andhra Pradesh | - | 21.19 | 24.57 | 35.66 | 44.08 | 60.47 | 67.02 |
Arunachal Pradesh | - | 7.13 | 11.29 | 25.55 | 41.59 | 54.34 | 65.38 |
Assam | 18.53 | 32.95 | 33.94 | - | 52.89 | 63.25 | 72.19 |
Bihar | 13.49 | 21.95 | 23.17 | 32.32 | 37.49 | 47.00 | 61.80 |
Chandigarh | - | - | 70.43 | 74.80 | 77.81 | 81.94 | 86.05 |
Chhattisgarh | 9.41 | 18.14 | 24.08 | 32.63 | 42.91 | 64.66 | 70.28 |
Dadra and Nagar Haveli | - | - | 18.13 | 32.90 | 40.71 | 57.63 | 76.24 |
Daman and Diu | - | - | - | - | 71.20 | 78.18 | 87.10 |
Delhi | - | 61.95 | 65.08 | 71.94 | 75.29 | 81.67 | 86.21 |
Goa | 23.48 | 35.41 | 51.96 | 65.71 | 75.51 | 82.01 | 88.70 |
Gujarat | 21.82 | 31.47 | 36.95 | 44.92 | 61.29 | 69.14 | 78.03 |
Haryana | - | - | 25.71 | 37.13 | 55.85 | 67.91 | 75.55 |
Himachal Pradesh | - | - | - | - | 63.86 | 76.48 | 82.80 |
Jammu and Kashmir | - | 12.95 | 21.71 | 30.64 | - | 55.52 | 67.16 |
Jharkhand | 12.93 | 21.14 | 23.87 | 35.03 | 41.39 | 53.56 | 66.41 |
Karnataka | - | 29.80 | 36.83 | 46.21 | 56.04 | 66.06 | 75.36 |
Kerala | 47.18 | 55.08 | 69.75 | 78.85 | 89.81 | 90.86 | 94.00 |
Lakshadweep | 15.23 | 27.15 | 51.76 | 68.42 | 81.78 | 86.66 | 91.85 |
Madhya Pradesh | 13.16 | 21.41 | 27.27 | 38.63 | 44.67 | 63.74 | 69.32 |
Maharashtra | 27.91 | 35.08 | 45.77 | 57.24 | 64.87 | 76.84 | 82.34 |
Manipur | 12.57 | 36.04 | 38.47 | 49.66 | 59.89 | 70.50 | 76.94 |
Meghalya | - | 26.92 | 29.49 | 42.05 | 49.10 | 62.56 | 74.43 |
Mizoram | 31.14 | 44.01 | 53.80 | 59.88 | 82.26 | 88.80 | 91.33 |
Nagaland | 10.52 | 21.95 | 33.78 | 50.28 | 61.65 | 66.59 | 79.55 |
Odisha | 15.80 | 21.66 | 26.18 | 33.62 | 49.09 | 63.08 | 72.87 |
Puducherry | - | 43.65 | 53.38 | 65.14 | 74.74 | 81.24 | 85.85 |
Punjab | - | - | 34.12 | 43.37 | 58.51 | 69.65 | 75.84 |
Rajasthan | 8.5 | 18.12 | 22.57 | 30.11 | 38.55 | 60.41 | 66.11 |
Sikkim | - | - | 17.74 | 34.05 | 56.94 | 68.81 | 81.42 |
Tamil Nadu | - | 36.39 | 45.40 | 54.39 | 62.66 | 73.45 | 80.33 |
Tripura | - | 20.24 | 30.98 | 50.10 | 60.44 | 73.19 | 87.22 |
Uttar Pradesh | 12.02 | 20.87 | 23.99 | 32.65 | 40.71 | 56.27 | 67.68 |
Uttarakhand | 18.93 | 18.05 | 33.26 | 46.06 | 57.75 | 71.62 | 78.82 |
West Bengal | 24.61 | 34.46 | 38.86 | 48.65 | 57.70 | 68.64 | 76.26 |
![]() | 18.33 | 28.30 | 34.45 | 43.57 | 52.21 | 64.84 | 74.04 |
Literacy by Social Group
Literacy rate for different castes[5]
Social Group | Rural | Urban | Rural + Urban | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
ST | 75.6 | 58.8 | 91.3 | 79.6 | 77.5 | 61.3 |
SC | 78.0 | 60.9 | 88.4 | 75.3 | 80.3 | 63.9 |
OBC | 81.7 | 64.2 | 91.1 | 80.5 | 84.4 | 68.9 |
OTHERS | 87.6 | 74.5 | 95.0 | 88.6 | 90.8 | 80.6 |
ALL | 81.5 | 65.0 | 92.2 | 82.8 | 84.7 | 70.3 |
Literacy rate by different religions[6]
Social Group | Rural | Urban | Rural + Urban | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
Hindu | 81.8 | 64.5 | 93.4 | 83.8 | 85.1 | 70.0 |
Muslim | 77.4 | 64.8 | 85.8 | 75.6 | 80.6 | 68.8 |
Christian | 84.4 | 77.0 | 95.5 | 91.4 | 88.2 | 82.2 |
Sikh | 92.7 | 96.4 | 94.2 | 95.3 | 88.9 | 90.1 |
ALL | 81.5 | 65.0 | 92.2 | 82.8 | 84.7 | 70 |
See also
References
Notes
- ^ Figures from Census 2011 includes those from Telangana state as well which separated from Andhra only in 2014
- ^ Literacy rates for 1951, 1961 and 1971 Censuses relate to population aged five years and above. The rates for the 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011 Censuses relate to the population aged seven years and above. The literacy rate for 1951 in case of West Bengal relates to Total Population including 0-4 age group. Literacy rate for 1951 in respect of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Manipur are based on sample population.
- ^ India and Manipur figures exclude those of the three sub-divisions viz., Mao Maram, Paomata and Purul of Senapati district of Manipur as census results of 2001 in these three sub-divisions were cancelled due to technical and administrative reasons.
Sources
- Census (2011), Chapter 6: State of Literacy (PDF), Government of India
- NSO (2018). Household Social Consumption on Education in India (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 30 November 2020.
Further reading
- Figures at a glance - Provisional Population Totals, Census of India, 2011 (PDF) (Report). 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- "People in Andhra Pradesh surprised at lowest literacy rate of 64%". Business Standard.