# List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate
## Recent estimates

Literacy rates as %age of population by States and Union territories :
| State or UT | Census 2011 | Census 2011 | Census 2011 | NSC survey (2017) | NSC survey (2017) | NSC survey (2017) |
| State or UT | Average | Male | Female | Average | Male | Female |
| India | 74.04 | 82.14 | 65.46 | 77.7 | 84.7 | 70.3 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 86.63 | 90.27 | 82.43 | 86.27 | 90.11 | 81.84 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 61.02 | 74.88 | 59.15 | 66.4 | 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 | 72.9 | 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 and 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 |
| Meghalaya | 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 | 73.00 | 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 Union 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. :
| State/UT | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | NSC 2017 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 30.30 | 40.07 | 51.15 | 63.19 | 73.02 | 81.30 | 86.63 | 77.7 |
| Andhra Pradesh | - | 21.19 | 24.57 | 35.66 | 44.08 | 60.47 | 67.02 | 66.4 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | - | 7.13 | 11.29 | 25.55 | 41.59 | 54.34 | 65.38 | 66.95 |
| Assam | 18.53 | 32.95 | 33.94 | - | 52.89 | 63.25 | 72.19 | 85.9 |
| Bihar | 13.49 | 21.95 | 23.17 | 32.32 | 37.49 | 47.00 | 61.80 | 70.9 |
| Chandigarh | - | - | 70.43 | 74.80 | 77.81 | 81.94 | 86.05 | 86.43 |
| Chhattisgarh | 9.41 | 18.14 | 24.08 | 32.63 | 42.91 | 64.66 | 70.28 | 77.3 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | - | - | 18.13 | 32.90 | 40.71 | 57.63 | 76.24 | 77.65 |
| Daman and Diu | - | - | - | - | 71.20 | 78.18 | 87.10 | 87.07 |
| Delhi | - | 61.95 | 65.08 | 71.94 | 75.29 | 81.67 | 86.21 | 88.70 |
| Goa | 23.48 | 35.41 | 51.96 | 65.71 | 75.51 | 82.01 | 88.70 | 89.40 |
| Gujarat | 21.82 | 31.47 | 36.95 | 44.92 | 61.29 | 69.14 | 78.03 | 82.4 |
| Haryana | - | - | 25.71 | 37.13 | 55.85 | 67.91 | 75.55 | 80.4 |
| Himachal Pradesh | - | - | - | - | 63.86 | 76.48 | 82.80 | 86.6 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | - | 12.95 | 21.71 | 30.64 | - | 55.52 | 67.16 | 77.3 |
| Jharkhand | 12.93 | 21.14 | 23.87 | 35.03 | 41.39 | 53.56 | 66.41 | 74.3 |
| Karnataka | - | 29.80 | 36.83 | 46.21 | 56.04 | 66.06 | 75.36 | 77.2 |
| Kerala | 47.18 | 55.08 | 69.75 | 78.85 | 89.81 | 90.86 | 94.00 | 96.2 |
| Lakshadweep | 15.23 | 27.15 | 51.76 | 68.42 | 81.78 | 86.66 | 91.85 | 92.28 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 13.16 | 21.41 | 27.27 | 38.63 | 44.67 | 63.74 | 69.32 | 73.7 |
| Maharashtra | 27.91 | 35.08 | 45.77 | 57.24 | 64.87 | 76.84 | 82.34 | 84.8 |
| Manipur | 12.57 | 36.04 | 38.47 | 49.66 | 59.89 | 70.50 | 76.94 | 79.85 |
| Meghalaya | - | 26.92 | 29.49 | 42.05 | 49.10 | 62.56 | 74.43 | 75.48 |
| Mizoram | 31.14 | 44.01 | 53.80 | 59.88 | 82.26 | 88.80 | 91.33 | 91.58 |
| Nagaland | 10.52 | 21.95 | 33.78 | 50.28 | 61.65 | 66.59 | 79.55 | 80.11 |
| Odisha | 15.80 | 21.66 | 26.18 | 33.62 | 49.09 | 63.08 | 72.87 | 77.3 |
| Puducherry | - | 43.65 | 53.38 | 65.14 | 74.74 | 81.24 | 85.85 | 86.55 |
| Punjab | - | - | 34.12 | 43.37 | 58.51 | 69.65 | 75.84 | 83.7 |
| Rajasthan | 8.5 | 18.12 | 22.57 | 30.11 | 38.55 | 60.41 | 66.11 | 69.7 |
| Sikkim | - | - | 17.74 | 34.05 | 56.94 | 68.81 | 81.42 | 82.2 |
| Tamil Nadu | - | 36.39 | 45.40 | 54.39 | 62.66 | 73.45 | 80.33 | 82.9 |
| Tripura | - | 20.24 | 30.98 | 50.10 | 60.44 | 73.19 | 87.22 | 87.75 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 12.02 | 20.87 | 23.99 | 32.65 | 40.71 | 56.27 | 67.68 | 73.00 |
| Uttarakhand | 18.93 | 18.05 | 33.26 | 46.06 | 57.75 | 71.62 | 78.82 | 87.6 |
| West Bengal | 24.61 | 34.46 | 38.86 | 48.65 | 57.70 | 68.64 | 76.26 | 80.50 |
| India | 18.33 | 28.30 | 34.45 | 43.57 | 52.21 | 64.84 | 74.04 | 77.7 |

## Literacy by Social Group
### Literacy rate for different castes

| Social Group | Rural | Rural | Urban | Urban | 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

| Social Group | Rural | Rural | Urban | Urban | 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 |