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- The National Statistical Office released its report on “Household Social Consumption: Education in India as part of 75th round of National Sample Survey”.
- The survey provides state wise details of literacy between the period July 2017 and June 2018.
Highlights
- Kerala has the highest literacy rate in the country.
- Around 96.2% of the people the state were literates.
- Delhi had the second-best literacy rate at 88.7% followed by Uttarakhand at 87.6%, Himachal Pradesh at 86.6% and Assam at 85.9%.
- Andhra Pradesh was at the bottom with 66.4% and it was followed by Bihar at 70.9% and Telangana at 72.8%.
- The overall literacy rate in India is 77.7%.
- The literacy rate in rural areas is 73.5%
- The literacy rate in urban areas is 87.7%
- The male literacy rate is higher than that of female literacy rates in all states.
- Male literacy rate was 80.8% and female literacy rate was just 57.6% in Rajasthan.
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