List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate

Last updated July 10, 2024

Recent estimates

Literacy rates as %age of population by States and Union territories
State or UT	Census 2011 ^[2]			NSO survey (2017)^[3]
State or UT	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
India	74.04	82.14	65.46	77.7	84.7	70.3
A&N islands ^[UT]^{[ citation needed ]}	86.63	90.27	82.43	86.27	90.11	81.84
Andhra Pradesh ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	67.02	74.88	59.15	66.9	80	59.5
Arunachal Pradesh	65.38	72.55	57.70	66.95	73.4	59.50
Assam	72.19	77.85	66.27	85.9	90.1	81.2
Bihar	61.80	71.20	51.50	70.9	79.7	60.5
Chhattisgarh	70.28	80.27	60.24	77.3	85.4	68.8
Chandigarh ^[UT]	86.05	89.99	81.19	86.43	90.54	81.38
Dadra and Nagar Haveli ^[UT]	76.34	85.17	64.32	77.65	86.46	77.65
Daman & Diu ^[UT]	87.10	91.54	79.55	87.07	91.48	87.07
Delhi ^[UT]	86.21	90.94	80.76	88.70	82.40	93.70
Goa	88.70	92.65	84.66	87.4	92.81	81.84
Gujarat	78.03	85.75	69.68	82.4	89.5	74.8
Haryana	75.55	84.06	65.94	80.4	88.0	71.3
Himachal Pradesh	62.80	89.53	75.93	86.6	92.9	80.5
Jammu and Kashmir	67.16	76.75	56.43	77.3	85.7	68.0
Jharkhand	66.41	76.84	55.42	74.3	83.0	64.7
Karnataka	75.36	82.47	68.08	77.2	83.4	70.5
Kerala	94.00	96.11	91.07	96.2	97.4	95.2
Lakshadweep ^[UT]	91.85	95.56	87.95	92.28	96.11	88.25
Madhya Pradesh	69.32	78.73	59.24	73.7	81.2	65.5
Maharashtra	82.34	88.38	75.87	84.8	90.7	78.4
Manipur	76.94	83.58	70.26	79.85	86.49	73.17
Meghalya	74.43	75.95	72.89	75.48	77.17	73.78
Mizoram	91.33	93.35	89.27	91.58	93.72	89.40
Nagaland	79.55	82.75	76.11	80.11	83.29	80.11
Odisha	72.87	81.59	64.01	77.3	84.0	70.3
Puducherry ^[UT]	85.85	91.26	80.67	86.55	92.12	86.55
Punjab	75.84	80.44	70.73	83.7	88.5	78.5
Rajasthan	66.11	79.19	52.12	69.7	80.8	57.6
Sikkim	81.42	86.55	75.61	82.2	87.29	76.43
Tamil Nadu	80.09	86.77	73.44	82.9	87.9	77.9
Telangana	–			72.8	80.5	65.1
Tripura	87.22	92.53	82.73	87.75	92.18	83.15
Uttarakhand	78.82	87.40	70.01	87.6	94.3	80.7
Uttar Pradesh	67.68	77.28	57.18	73.0	81.8	63.4
West Bengal	76.36	81.69	70.54	80.50	84.80	76.10

^ Administered as a Union territory directly by Central government.

Timeline by Census

Summary by Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India; literacy rates as % of population.^[4]^{[lower-alpha 2]}^{[lower-alpha 3]}
State/UT	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
A&N 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
Meghalya	-	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

Literacy rate for different castes^[5]

Social Group	Rural		Urban		Rural + Urban
Social Group	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
ST	75.6	58.8	91.3	79.6	77.5	61.3
SC	78.0	60.9	88.4	75.3	80.3	63.9
OBC	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
ALL	81.5	65.0	92.2	82.8	84.7	70.3

Literacy rate by different religions^[6]

Social Group	Rural		Urban		Rural + Urban
Social Group	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Hindu	81.8	64.5	93.4	83.8	85.1	70.0
Muslim	77.4	64.8	85.8	75.6	80.6	68.8
Christian	84.4	77.0	95.5	91.4	88.2	82.2
Sikh	92.7	96.4	94.2	95.3	88.9	90.1
ALL	81.5	65.0	92.2	82.8	84.7	70

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References

↑ Census 2011, pp. 131.
↑ Census 2011, pp. 110–111.
↑ NSO 2018, pp. 43.
↑ TABLE 6: STATE-WISE LITERACY RATES (PDF) (Report). Office of Registrar General India. 2011.
↑ NSO 2018, pp. 43, 252.
↑ NSO 2018, p. 252.

Notes

↑ Figures from Census 2011 includes those from Telangana state as well which separated from Andhra only in 2014
↑ Literacy rates for 1951, 1961 and 1971 Censuses relate to population aged five years and above. The rates for the 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011 Censuses relate to the population aged seven years and above. The literacy rate for 1951 in case of West Bengal relates to Total Population including 0-4 age group. Literacy rate for 1951 in respect of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Manipur are based on sample population.
↑ India and Manipur figures exclude those of the three sub-divisions viz., Mao Maram, Paomata and Purul of Senapati district of Manipur as census results of 2001 in these three sub-divisions were cancelled due to technical and administrative reasons.

Sources

Census (2011), Chapter 6: State of Literacy (PDF), Government of India
NSO (2018). Household Social Consumption on Education in India (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 30 November 2020.

List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate

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