Literacy Rate in India as per Census 2011

Literacy Rate in India,Census 2011

Rank State Literacy Rate

(2011 Census) Male Literacy Rate

(2011 Census) Female Literacy Rate

(2011 Census) 1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 86.3 percent 90.1 percent 81.8 percent 2 Andhra Pradesh 67.4 % 74.8 % 60.0 % 3 Arunachal Pradesh 67.0 percent 73.7 percent 59.6 percent 4 Assam 73.2 percent 78.8 percent 67.3 percent 5 Bihar 63.8 percent 73.5 percent 53.3 percent 6 Chandigarh 86.4 percent 90.5 percent 81.4 percent 7 Chattisgarh 71.0 percent 81.5 percent 60.6 percent 8 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 77.7 percent 86.5 percent 65.9 percent 9 Daman & Diu 87.1 percent 91.5 percent 79.6 percent 10 Delhi 86.3 percent 91.0 percent 80.9 percent 11 Goa 87.4 92.8 percent 81.8 percent 12 Gujarat 79.3 percent 87.2 percent 70.7 percent 13 Haryana 76.6 percent 85.4 percent 66.8 percent 14 Himachal Pradesh 83.8 percent 90.8 percent 76.6 percent 15 Jammu and Kashmir 68.7 percent 78.3 percent 58.0 percent 16 Jharkhand 67.6 percent 78.5 percent 56.2 percent 17 Karnataka 75.6 percent 82.8 percent 68.1 percent 18 Kerala 93.9 percent 96.0 percent 92.0 percent 19 Lakshadweep 92.3 percent 96.1 percent 88.2 percent 20 Madhya Pradesh 70.6 percent 80.5 percent 60.0 percent 21 Maharashtra 82.9 percent 89.8 percent 75.5 percent 22 Manipur 79.8 percent 86.5 percent 73.2 percent 23 Meghalaya 75.5 percent 77.2 percent 73.8 percent 24 Mizoram 91.6 percent 93.7 percent 89.4 percent 25 Nagaland 80.1 percent 83.3 percent 76.7 percent 26 Orissa 73.5 percent 82.4 percent 64.4 percent 27 Puducherry 86.5 percent 92.1 percent 81.2 percent 28 Punjab 76.7 percent 81.5 percent 71.3 percent 29 Rajasthan 67.1 percent 80.5 percent 52.7 percent 30 Sikkim 82.2 percent 87.3 percent 76.4 percent 31 Tamil Nadu 80.3 percent 86.8 percent 73.9 percent 32 Tripura 87.8 percent 92.2 percent 83.1 percent 33 Uttar Pradesh 69.7 percent 79.2 percent 59.3 percent 34 Uttarakhand 79.6 percent 88.3 percent 70.7 percent 35 West Bengal 77.1 percent 82.7 percent 71.2 percent 36 Telangana 66.46 % 74.95 % 57.92 % - INDIA 74.04 percent 82.14 percent 65.46 percent





Last Updated on : January 10, 2017

The Literacy rate in India has improved a lot over the last one decade. Especially after the implementation of free education in the villages the literacy rate has gone up tremendously in states like Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan As per the data published by the 2011 census India has managed to achieve an effective literacy rate of 74.04 per cent in 2011. In the 2001 census the country's literacy rate stood at 64.8 percent. The most notable thing that came across in the 2011 census is the sharp rise in the literacy of females over males. According to the report released by the latest census there are almost 74 per cent literates that constitute the total population of India aged between seven and above.Some of the States and Union Territories like Mizoram , Tripura,Goa, like Kerala, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Lakshadweep , Daman and Diu, National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the last one decade have done extremely well for themselves by attaining a literacy rate of almost 85.