Indian states Ranking by literacy rate - Wikipedia Indian states Ranking by literacy rate States and union territories of India ordered by Area Population Abbreviations Capitals Child Nutrition Crime rate Economic Freedom Electricity penetration Fertility rate Forest cover GDP ( per capita ) Highest point HIV awareness HDI Home ownership Household size Human Trafficking Institutional delivery Life expectancy at birth Literacy rate Media exposure Number of Vehicles Number of voters Obesity Open defecation Origin of name Places of worship Poverty Power capacity Riots rate Safe Drinking Water Safety of Women School Enrollment Rate Sex ratio Suicides Tax revenues Ease of Doing Business TV ownership Toilet availability Transport network Underweight people Unemployment Vaccination coverage Literacy rate map of India, 2011. The graph shows the literacy rate of the 28 states of India and India ( as whole ) in 2011 ( green ) as compared to in 2001 ( blue ). Union territories have not been included Literacy rate in India is uneven and as such, different States and Union Territories of India have differences in their literacy rates. The following table shows the 2011 and 2001 census data on total literacy rate, male literacy rate, female literacy rate and decadal difference in percentage. According to Census 2011, Kerala has the highest total literacy rate and female literacy rate whereas Lakshadweep had the highest male literacy rate. Bihar has the lowest total literacy rate and male literacy rates while Rajasthan has the lowest female literacy rate. Rank India / State / Union Territory Literacy Rate ( % ) - 2011 Census Male Literacy Rate ( % ) - 2011 Census Female Literacy Rate ( % ) - 2011 Census Literacy Rate ( % ) - 2001 Census Decadal Difference ( pp ) Kerala 93.91 96.02 91.98 90.86 3.05 Lakshadweep 92.28 96.11 88.25 86.66 5.62 Mizoram 91.58 93.72 89.40 88.80 2.78 Tripura 87.75 92.18 83.15 73.19 14.56 Goa 87.40 92.81 81.84 82.01 5.39 6 Daman & Diu 87.07 91.48 79.59 78.18 8.89 7 Puducherry 86.55 92.12 81.22 81.24 5.31 8 Chandigarh 86.43 90.54 81.38 81.94 4.49 9 Delhi 86.34 91.03 80.93 81.67 4.67 10 Andaman & Nicobar 86.27 90.11 81.84 81.30 4.97 11 Himachal Pradesh 83.78 90.83 76.60 76.48 7.30 12 Maharashtra 82.91 89.82 75.48 76.88 6.03 13 Sikkim 82.20 87.29 76.43 68.81 13.39 14 Tamil Nadu 80.33 86.81 73.86 73.45 6.88 15 Nagaland 80.11 83.29 76.89 66.59 13.52 16 Manipur 79.85 86.49 73.17 69.93 9.92 17 Uttarakhand 79.63 88.33 70.70 71.62 8.01 18 Gujarat 79.31 87.23 70.73 69.14 10.17 19 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 77.65 86.46 65.93 57.63 20.02 20 West Bengal 77.08 82.67 71.16 68.64 8.44 21 Punjab 76.68 81.48 71.34 69.65 7.03 22 Haryana 76.64 85.38 66.77 67.91 8.73 23 Karnataka 75.60 82.85 68.13 66.64 8.96 24 Meghalaya 75.48 77.17 73.78 62.56 12.92 India 74.04 82.14 65.46 64.83 9.21 25 Odisha 73.45 82.40 64.36 63.08 10.37 26 Assam 73.18 78.81 67.27 63.25 9.93 27 Chhattisgarh 71.04 81.45 60.59 64.66 6.38 28 Madhya Pradesh 70.63 80.53 60.02 63.74 6.89 29 Uttar Pradesh 69.72 79.24 59.26 56.27 13.45 30 Jammu & Kashmir 68.74 78.26 58.01 55.52 13.22 31 Jharkhand 67.63 78.45 56.21 53.56 14.07 32 Andhra Pradesh 67.4 75.56 59.74 -- -- 33 Rajasthan 67.06 80.51 52.66 60.41 6.65 34 Arunachal Pradesh 66.95 73.69 59.57 54.34 12.61 35 Telangana 66.5 -- -- -- -- 36 Bihar 63.82 73.39 53.33 47.00 16.82 Notes Jump up ^ In September 2013, the State Government of Tripura claimed that the state has surpassed Kerala as the most literate state in India, with a literacy rate of 94.65 %. Jump up ^ As per a government report dated May 2014 ( based on the 2011 census data ), literacy rate of Andhra Pradesh is 67.4 %. Jump up ^ Census 2011 data was calculated for unified Andhra Pradesh. As per Times of India report which quoted the literacy rates of Telangana as 66.5 %. References Jump up ^ `` Ranking of states and union territories by literacy rate : 2011 '' ( PDF ). Government of India. ^ Jump up to : `` Census 2011, Chapter 6 ( State of Literacy ), p. 14 '' ( PDF ). Government of India. Jump up ^ `` India at a glance ''. Government of India. Jump up ^ `` Tripura has achieved first position in literacy ''. decccan herald. 2013 - 09 - 08. Jump up ^ `` Tripura beats Kerala in literacy ''. Times of India. 8 September 2013. Jump up ^ Demography, Andhra Pradesh Government, p. 41, January 2016 Jump up ^ Nag, Kingshuk ( 2 June 2014 ). `` T - party today : India 's 29th state Telangana is born ''. Times of India. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_states_ranking_by_literacy_rate&oldid=808136192 '' Categories : States and territories of India - related lists Literacy in India Lists of subdivisions of India Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from December 2015 Use Indian English from December 2015 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Talk About Wikipedia বাংলা Français हिन्दी മലയാളം தமிழ் اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 1 November 2017, at 02 : 42. About Wikipedia

Question: based on the 2011 census which state has the maximum literacy in india
Answer: Kerala