Children Data Bank
For India

Sex-wise Rural and Urban Literacy Rates in India
for the years 1951, 1981, 1991, 1997 & 2001



Year
 
Male
Female
Total
1951
(a)Rural
19.02
4.87
12.1
 
Urban
45.06
22.33
34.59
 
Total*
27.26
8.86
18.33
1981
(d)Rural
49.69
21.77
36.09
 
Urban
76.83
56.37
67.34
 
Total
56.5
29.85
43.67
1991
(e)Rural
57.87
30.62
44.69
 
Urban
81.09
64.05
73.08
 
Total
64.13
39.29
52.21
1997
(f)Rural
68
43
56
 
Urban
88
72
80
 
Total
73
50
62
2001
(g)Rural
NA
NA
NA
 
Urban
NA
NA
NA
 
Total
75.85
54.16
65.38
Notes:  *          For Totals : Paper 1 of 1981 Provisional Population Totals.
            (a)         For Rural/Urban : Census of India, 1951, C-IV Table.
            (d) & (e) Census of India, 1991, Paper 2 of 1991 Vol. II excluding J & K.
            (f)         53 rd Round of NSSO.
            (g)        Provisional Results of Census of India, 2001.
            NA :     Not Available.
Source :  Education for All Development since Dakar India Country Paper.


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