List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate explained

Recent estimates

State or UT! colspan="3"

Census 2011	NSO survey (2017)
Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
	74.04	82.14	65.46	77.7	84.7	70.3
	86.63	90.27	82.43	86.27	90.11	81.84
Andhra Pradesh	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	86.05	89.99	81.19	86.43	90.54	81.38
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	76.34	85.17	64.32	77.65	86.46	77.65
Daman & Diu	87.10	91.54	79.55	87.07	91.48	87.07
Delhi	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	82.80	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	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	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.^[1] ! 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
	18.33	28.30	34.45	43.57	52.21	64.84	74.04

Literacy by Social Group

Literacy rate for different castes

Social Group	Rural		Urban		Rural + Urban
	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

Social Group	Rural		Urban		Rural + Urban
	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

See also

• Literacy in India
• Education in India
• Gender inequality in India

References

Notes

Sources

• • Household Social Consumption on Education in India. PDF. 2018. 2020-11-30. NSO.

Further reading

• Figures at a glance - Provisional Population Totals, Census of India, 2011. 2011. PDF. 2020-12-01.
• Web site: People in Andhra Pradesh surprised at lowest literacy rate of 64%. Business Standard.

Notes and References

1. 2011. TABLE 6: STATE-WISE LITERACY RATES. PDF. Office of Registrar General India.