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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