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October 5, 2013

Literacy Rate - Census 2011 for UPSC IAS, APPSC, Bank Po & IBPS Competitive exams General Awareness

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Literates constitute 74 per cent of the total population aged seven years and above and the data shows 26 per cent of the population is still unlettered. The literacy rate went up from 64.83 per cent in 2001 to 74.04 per cent in 2011 — showing an increase of 9.21 percentage points.
Significantly, the female literacy level saw a significant jump as compared to males. The female literacy in 2001 was 53.67 per cent and it has gone up to 65.46 per cent in 2011. The male literacy, in comparison, rose from 75.26 to 82.14 per cent.

 Kerala, with 93.91 per cent, continues to occupy the top position among States as far as literacy is concerned, while Mizoram's Serchhip district (98.76 per cent) and Aizawl (98.50 per cent) recorded the highest literacy rates among districts. Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district has the lowest literacy rate of 37.22 per cent as also the naxalite-affected Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, where the literacy rate is 41.58 per cent.
Lakshadweep followed Kerala with a literacy level of 92.28 per cent, while Bihar remained at the bottom of the ladder at 63.82 per cent, followed by Arunachal Pradesh at 66.95 per cent. Ten States and Union Territories, including Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Tripura, Goa, Daman and Diu, Puducherry, Chandigarh, NCT of Delhi and Andaman and Nicobar Islands achieved a literacy rate of above 85 per cent, which met the Planning Commission's target set to be achieved by 2011-12.
The gap of 21.59 percentage points recorded between male and female literacy rates in 2001 census has reduced to 16.68 percentage points in 2011. The Planning Commission is targeting a reduction of this gap to 10 percentage points by 2011-12.
A significant milestone reached in the 2011 census is the fall in the number of illiterate persons by 31,196,847. Of the total decrease in the number of illiterates, women comprise 17,122,197 and men were 14,074,650. It was also encouraging to note that out of a total of 217,700,941 literates added during the decade, females outnumbered males by 110,069,001 to 107,631,940.


Rank
State
Literacy Rate (2011 Census)
Male Literacy Rate (2011 Census)
Female Literacy Rate (2011 Census)
1
Kerala
93.9 percent
96.0 percent
92.0 percent
2
Lakshadweep
92.3 percent
96.1 percent
88.2 percent
3
Mizoram
91.6 percent
93.7 percent
89.4 percent
4
Tripura
87.8 percent
92.2 percent
83.1 percent
5
Goa
87.4 percent
92.8 percent
81.8 percent
6
Daman & Diu
87.1 percent
91.5 percent
79.6 percent
7
Puducherry
86.5 percent
92.1 percent
81.2 percent
8
Chandigarh
86.4 percent
90.5 percent
81.4 percent
9
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
86.3 percent
90.1 percent
81.8 percent
10
Delhi
86.3 percent
91.0 percent
80.9 percent
11
Himachal Pradesh
83.8 percent
90.8 percent
76.6 percent
12
Maharashtra
82.9 percent
89.8 percent
75.5 percent
13
Sikkim
82.2 percent
87.3 percent
76.4 percent
14
Tamil Nadu
80.3 percent
86.8 percent
73.9 percent
15
Nagaland
80.1 percent
83.3 percent
76.7 percent
16
Manipur
79.8 percent
86.5 percent
73.2 percent
17
Uttarakhand
79.6 percent
88.3 percent
70.7 percent
18
Gujarat
79.3 percent
87.2 percent
70.7 percent
19
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
77.7 percent
86.5 percent
65.9 percent
20
West Bengal
77.1 percent
82.7 percent
71.2 percent
21
Punjab
76.7 percent
81.5 percent
71.3 percent
22
Haryana
76.6 percent
85.4 percent
66.8 percent
23
Karnataka
75.6 percent
82.8 percent
68.1 percent
24
Meghalaya
75.5 percent
77.2 percent
73.8 percent

INDIA
74.04 percent
82.14 percent
65.46 percent
25
Orissa
73.5 percent
82.4 percent
64.4 percent
26
Assam
73.2 percent
78.8 percent
67.3 percent
27
Chattisgarh
71.0 percent
81.5 percent
60.6 percent
28
Madhya Pradesh
70.6 percent
80.5 percent
60.0 percent
29
Uttar Pradesh
69.7 percent
79.2 percent
59.3 percent
30
Jammu and Kashmir
68.7 percent
78.3 percent
58.0 percent
31
Andhra Pradesh
67.7 percent
75.6 percent
59.7 percent
32
Jharkhand
67.6 percent
78.5 percent
56.2 percent
33
Rajasthan
67.1 percent
80.5 percent
52.7 percent
34
Arunachal Pradesh
67.0 percent
73.7 percent
59.6 percent
35
Bihar
63.8 percent
73.5 percent
53.3 percent

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