List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate

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This article documents the literacy rate of states and union territories of the Republic of India. The Indian national census is a key source for literacy data. However, a national census has not been conducted since 2011 in India, thus other data sources have been used since then as a reference.

Recent estimates

File:Literacy rates as percentage of population by States and Union territories in 2018 (National Statistical Commission 2017-18).png
Literacy rate as per NSC in 2017-18
File:Literacy rates as percentage of population by States and Union territories in 2011 (Census 2011).png
Literacy rate as per Census 2011

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Literacy rates as %age of population aged seven and older
State/Template:Abbr Census 2011Template:Sfn NSC survey (2017)Template:Sfn[1] PLFS report (2024)[2]
Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female
India 74.04 82.14 65.46 77.7 84.7 70.3 80.9 87.2 74.6
Andaman and Nicobar IslandsTemplate:Ref label 86.63 90.27 82.43 86.27 90.11 81.84 91.1 95.0 87.0
Andhra Pradesh 67.02 74.88 59.15 66.4 73.4 59.5 72.6 78.8 66.8
Arunachal Pradesh 65.38 72.55 57.70 66.95 73.4 59.50 84.2 88.0 80.3
Assam 72.19 77.85 66.27 85.9 90.1 81.2 87.0 90.3 83.6
Bihar 61.80 71.20 51.50 70.9 79.7 60.5 74.3 82.3 66.1
Chhattisgarh 70.28 80.27 60.24 77.3 85.4 68.7 78.5 86.2 70.6
ChandigarhTemplate:Ref label 86.05 89.99 81.19 86.43 90.54 81.38 93.7 96.4 90.7
Dadra and Nagar HaveliTemplate:Ref label 76.34 85.17 64.32 77.65 86.46 77.65 - - -
Daman and DiuTemplate:Ref label 87.10 91.54 79.55 87.07 91.48 87.07 - - -
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and DiuTemplate:Ref labelTemplate:Efn - - - - - - 87.8 93.6 80.7
DelhiTemplate:Ref label 86.21 90.94 80.76 88.70 93.70 82.40 86.9 91.6 81.5
Goa 88.70 92.65 84.66 87.4 92.81 81.84 93.6 97.0 90.0
Gujarat 78.03 85.75 69.68 82.4 89.5 74.8 84.6 91.2 77.5
Haryana 75.55 84.06 65.94 80.4 88.0 71.3 84.8 91.4 77.4
Himachal Pradesh 82.80 89.53 75.93 86.6 92.9 80.5 88.8 94.6 83.1
Jammu and KashmirTemplate:Ref labelTemplate:Efn 67.16 76.75 56.43 77.3 85.7 68.0 82.0 89.6 73.8
Jharkhand 66.41 76.84 55.42 74.3 83.0 64.7 76.7 82.8 70.6
Karnataka 75.36 82.47 68.08 77.2 83.4 70.5 82.7 88.1 77.3
Kerala 94.00 96.11 91.07 96.2 97.4 95.2 95.3 96.7 94.0
LakshadweepTemplate:Ref label 91.85 95.56 87.95 92.28 96.11 88.25 97.3 99.4 94.8
LadakhTemplate:Ref labelTemplate:Efn - - - - - - 81.0 87.9 73.1
Madhya Pradesh 69.32 78.73 59.24 73.7 81.2 65.5 75.2 83.1 67.0
Maharashtra 82.34 88.38 75.87 84.8 90.7 78.4 87.3 92.7 81.6
Manipur 76.94 83.58 70.26 79.85 86.49 73.17 92.0 94.4 89.7
Meghalaya 74.43 75.95 72.89 75.48 77.17 73.78 94.2 95.1 93.5
Mizoram 91.33 93.35 89.27 99.01 93.72 89.40 98.2 99.2 97.0
Nagaland 79.55 82.75 76.11 80.11 83.29 80.11 95.7 97.2 94.1
Odisha 72.87 81.59 64.01 77.3 84.0 70.3 79.0 84.9 73.3
PuducherryTemplate:Ref label 85.85 91.26 80.67 86.55 92.12 86.55 92.7 96.9 88.8
Punjab 75.84 80.44 70.73 83.7 88.5 78.5 83.4 87.0 79.8
Rajasthan 66.11 79.19 52.12 69.7 80.8 57.6 75.8 85.9 65.8
Sikkim 81.42 86.55 75.61 82.2 87.29 76.43 84.7 89.3 79.3
Tamil Nadu 80.09 86.77 73.44 82.9 87.9 77.9 85.5 90.0 81.3
TelanganaTemplate:Efn - - - 72.8 80.5 65.1 76.9 84.7 69.4
Tripura 87.22 92.53 82.73 87.75 92.18 83.15 93.7 95.7 91.6
Uttarakhand 78.82 87.40 70.01 87.6 94.3 80.7 83.8 90.4 77.2
Uttar Pradesh 67.68 77.28 57.18 73.0 81.8 63.4 78.2 86.0 70.4
West Bengal 76.36 81.69 70.54 80.5 84.8 76.1 82.6 85.8 79.3

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Census

Literacy rate as % of population[3]Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
State/UT 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Andaman and Nicobar 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
Meghalaya - 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
India 18.33 28.30 34.45 43.57 52.21 64.84 74.04

Literacy by social group

By caste

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Literacy rate % (NSO 2018)Template:Sfn
Social Group Rural Urban Total
Male Female Male Female Male Female
Scheduled Tribe 75.6 58.8 91.3 79.6 77.5 61.3
Scheduled Caste 78.0 60.9 88.4 75.3 80.3 63.9
Other Backward Class 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
India 81.5 65.0 92.2 82.8 84.7 70.3

By religion

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Religion NSO 2018Template:Sfn PLFS 2024[4]
Rural Urban Total Rural Urban Total
Male Female Male Female Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female
Hindu 81.8 64.5 93.4 83.8 85.1 70.0 77.3 84.7 69.8 89.7 93.7 85.4 80.8 87.3 74.2
Muslim 77.4 64.8 85.8 75.6 80.6 68.8 77.1 83.5 70.9 83.7 87.6 79.6 79.5 85.0 74.0
Christian 84.4 77.0 95.5 91.4 88.2 82.2 85.8 88.0 83.6 94.5 95.9 93.2 88.9 90.8 87.1
Sikh 92.7 96.4 94.2 95.3 88.9 90.1 80.9 84.3 77.3 90.9 94.7 87.1 83.4 86.9 79.8
India 81.5 65.0 92.2 82.8 84.7 70.3 77.5 84.7 70.4 88.9 92.9 84.9 80.9 87.2 74.6

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Literacy rate of India according to NSC Report 2017-18. Key Indicators of Household Social Consumption on Education in India.NSS 75th Round.(July 2017 - June 2018).
  2. ↑ Annual Report, Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) (July 2023 – June 2024){{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India(23 September 2024)
  3. ↑ Template:Cite report
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