Children
Data Bank
For India
Literacy
rates in India, 1951-1991
|
Year
|
Persons
|
Males
|
Females
|
|
1951
|
16.67
|
24.95
|
7.93
|
|
1961
|
24.02
|
34.44
|
12.95
|
|
1971
|
29.45
|
39.45
|
18.69
|
|
1981
|
43.67
|
56.50
|
29.85
|
|
1991
|
52.21
|
64.13
|
39.29
|
NOTE: i) Literacy rates for
1951, 1961and 1971related to population aged five years and above. The
rates for the years 1981 and 1991 related to the population aged seven
years and above.
ii) Census could not be
conducted in 1981 in Assam and in 1991 in Jammu amd Kashmir.
SOURCE: Annual Report, 1996-97,
Part-I, Govt. of India, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource
Development, New Delhi, p.250.
Index: Indian
Data
Index: International
Data
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