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List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate

Indian subdivisions by literacy

Summary

Indian subdivisions by literacy

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

State/UT	Census 2011	NSC survey (2017)	PLFS report (2024)	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 Islands	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	67.40	80.0	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	69.70	84.91	73.91	74.3	82.3	66.1
Chhattisgarh	70.28	80.27	60.24	77.3	85.4	68.8	78.5	86.2	70.6
Chandigarh	86.05	89.99	81.19	86.43	90.54	81.38	93.7	96.4	90.7
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	76.34	85.17	64.32	77.65	86.46	77.65	-	-	-
Daman and Diu	87.10	91.54	79.55	87.07	91.48	87.07	-	-	-
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	-	-	-	-	-	-	87.8	93.6	80.7
Delhi	86.21	90.94	80.76	88.70	82.40	93.70	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 Kashmir	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
Lakshadweep	91.85	95.56	87.95	92.28	96.11	88.25	97.3	99.4	94.8
Ladakh	-	-	-	-	-	-	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
Puducherry	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
Telangana	-	-	-	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	73.00	81.8	63.4	78.2	86.0	70.4
West Bengal	76.36	81.69	70.54	80.50	84.80	76.10	82.6	85.8	79.3

Administered as a Union territory directly by Union government.

Census

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

Literacy by social group

By caste

Social Group	Rural	Urban	Total	Male	Female	Male
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

By religion

Religion	NSO 2018	PLFS 2024	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban	Total	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
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

Notes

References

Sources

References

"Literacy rate of India according to NSC Report 2017-18".
(23 September 2024). "Annual Report, Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) (July 2023 – June 2024)". National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
(2011). "Table 6: State wise Literacy Rates". Office of Registrar General India.
(23 September 2024). "Annual Report, Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) (July 2023 – June 2024)". National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.

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