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Literacy in Districts

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[[Bihar]] has a total [[literacy rate]] of 69.83%. Overall Male and Female [[literacy rate]] is 70.32% and 53.57% respectively. Total [[Rural]] literacy rate is 43.9%. In rural areas of Bihar, Male and Female literacy rate is 57.1 and 29.6 respectively. Total [[Urban area|Urban]] literacy rate is 71.9. In urban areas of Bihar, Male and Female literacy rate is 79.9 and 62.6 respectively. . Total number of [[Literate|literates]] in Bihar is 3,16,75,607 which consists 2,09,78,955 Male and 1,06,96,652 Female. [[Patna district|Patna]] has highest Literacy Rate of 63.82% followed by [[Rohtas district|Rohtas]] (62.36%) and [[Munger district|Munger]] (60.11%). [[Kishanganj district|Kishanganj]] has lowest Literacy Rate of 31.02% followed by [[Araria district|Araria]] (34.94%) and [[Katihar]] (35.29%). A recent survey by [[Pratham]] rated the receptivity of Bihari children to their teaching as being better than those in other states. Bihar is striving to increase female literacy, now at 53.3%. At the time of independence, women's literacy in Bihar was 4.22%.

==Growth in Literacy Rate==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:.6em;"
|+'''Literacy Rate from 1951~2011'''<ref>http://gov.bih.nic.in/Profile/CensusStats-03.htm</ref>
|-
!Year||Total||Males||Females
|-
|1951 || 13.45 || 22.68 || 4.22
|-
|1961 || 21.98 || 35.85 || 8.11
|-
|1971 || 22.86 || 35.86 || 9.86
|-
|1981 || 31.86 ||47.11||16.61
|-
|1991 || 36.68 || 51.37 || 21.99
|-
|2001 || 46.94 || 60.32 || 33.57
|-
|2011 || 61.35 || 71.20 || 51.50
|}

== Academic Level==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:.6em;"
|+ '''[[Education in Bihar]]''' <ref>http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_data_finder/C_Series/Literates_and_educational_level.htm</ref>
|-
! Level !! Total!! Male!! Female
|-
| Literate with education||1,715,049 ||1,109,731|| 605,318
|-
| Below Primary||7,890,329 || 4,754,137 || 3,136,192
|-
| Primary||8,334,709|| 5,130,917|| 3,203,792
|-
| Middle||4,390,226 || 3,012,151 || 1,378,075
|-
| Secondary||4,751,560|| 3,439,918 || 1,311,642
|-
| Higher Secondary||1,826,093|| 1,385,282 || 440,811
|-
| Technical Diploma||24,989 || 20,088 || 4,901
|-
| Non-technical Diploma ||48,532 || 40,458 || 8,074
|-
| Graduate & above||2,109,415|| 1,737,651 || 371,764
|-
| Unclassified ||18,675 || 14,043 || 4,632
|}

==Literacy in Districts==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:.6em;"
|+ '''Literacy in Bihar'''<ref>http://gov.bih.nic.in/Profile/CensusStats-03.htm [[Literacy in Bihar]]</ref>
! rowspan="3" |[[Districts of Bihar]]
! colspan="3" |2011
! colspan="3" |2001
! colspan="3" |1991
|-
! rowspan="2" |Total 
! colspan="2" |Gender wise
! rowspan="2" |Total 
! colspan="2" |Gender wise
! rowspan="2" | Total 
! colspan="2" |Gender wise
|-
!Male 
!Female 
!Male 
!Female || Male ||Female 
|-
|[[West Champaran district|West Champaran]]
|
|
|
|39.63
|51.91
|25.85||27.99||39.62||14.41
|-
|[[East Champaran district|East Champaran]]
|
|
|
|42.74
|67.90
|74.47||44.41||58.49||85.45
|-
|[[Sheohar district|Sheohar]]
|
|
|
|37.01
|45.54
|27.43||26.18||36.36||14.34
|-
|[[Sitamarhi district|Sitamarhi]]
|
|
|
|39.38
|51.02
|26.35||28.49||39.86||15.49
|-
|[[Madhubani district|Madhubani]]
|
|
|
|42.35
|57.26
|26.56||33.22||48.49||16.75
|-
|[[Supaul district|Supaul]]
|
|
|
|37.8
|53.23
|21.02||28.11||40.96||13.74
|-
|[[Araria district|Araria]]
|
|
|
|34.94
|46.5
|22.14||26.19||36.99||14.01
|-
|[[Kishanganj district|Kishanganj]]
|
|
|
|31.02
|42.8
|18.49||22.22||33.12||10.38
|-
|[[Purnia district|Purnia]]
|
|
|
|35.51
|46.16
|23.72|| 28.52||38.92||16.8
|-
|[[Katihar district|Katihar]]
|
|
|
|35.29
|45.51
|24.03|| 28.7||39.24||16.88
|-
|[[Madhepura district|Madhepura]]
|
|
|
|36.19
|48.87
|22.31||27.72||39.31||14.41
|-
|[[Saharsa district|Saharsa]]
|
|
|
|39.28
|52.04
|25.31|| 29.98||42.37||15.83
|-
|[[Darbhanga district|Darbhanga]]
|
|
|
|44.32
|57.18
|30.35||34.94||48.31||20.09
|-
|[[Muzaffarpur district|Muzaffarpur]]
|
|
|
|48.15
|60.19
|35.2||36.11||48.44||22.33
|-
|[[Gopalganj district, India|Gopalganj]]
|
|
|
|48.19
|63.81
|32.81||34.96||51.62||17.75
|-
|[[Siwan district]]
|
|
|
|52.01
|67.67
|37.26||39.13||57.51||21.33
|-
|[[Saran district|Saran]]
|
|
|
|52.01
|67.81
|35.74|| 41.79||60.18||22.71
|-
|[[Vaishali district|Vaishali]]
|
|
|
|51.63
|64
|38.14||40.56||55.62||24.08
|-
|[[Samastipur district|Samastipur]]
|
|
|
|69.76
|80.83
|90.69||60.37||76.39||85.17
|-
|[[Begusarai district|Begusarai]]
|
|
|
|48.55
|59.71
|36.21||36.88||48.66||23.52
|-
|[[Khagaria district|Khagaria]]
|
|
|
|41.56
|52.02
|29.62||32.33||42.97||19.79
|-
|[[Bhagalpur district|Bhagalpur]]
|
|
|
|50.28
|60.11
|38.83||41.84||53.41||28.11
|-
|[[Banka district|Banka]]
|
|
|
|43.4
|56.28
|29.1|| 34.55||48.17||18.99
|-
|[[Munger district|Munger]]
|
|
|
|60.11
|70.68
|47.97|| 52.25||64.95||37.07
|-
|[[Lakhisarai district|Lakhisarai]]
|
|
|
|48.21
|60.97
|34.26||39.4||53.12||23.48
|-
|[[Sheikhpura district|Sheikhpura]]
|
|
|
|49.01
|62.56
|34.13||40.92||55.43||24.41
|-
|[[Nalanda district|Nalanda]]
|
|
|
|53.64
|66.94
|39.03|| 46.95||61.95||29.97
|-
|[[Patna district|Patna]]
|
|
|
|63.82
|73.81
|52.17|| 56.33||69.07||41.35
|-
|[[Bhojpur District, Bihar|Bhojpur]]
|
|
|
|59.71
|74.78
|42.81|| 48.18||66.35||27.95
|-
|[[Buxar district|Buxar]]
|
|
|
|57.49
|72.82
|40.36|| 33.49||62.94||25.74
|-
|[[Kaimur district|Kaimur]]
|
|
|
|55.57
|70.57
|38.9|| 39.35||55.68||20.69
|-
|[[Rohtas district|Rohtas]]
|
|
|
|62.36
|76.54
|46.62|| 48.52||64.5||30.29
|-
|[[Jehanabad district|Jehanabad]]
|
|
|
|56.03
|70.9
|40.08||45.83||63.11||26.81
|-
|[[Aurangabad district, Bihar|Aurangabad]]
|
|
|
|57.5
|71.99
|42.04||45.14||61.8||26.67
|-
|[[Gaya district|Gaya]]
|
|
|
|61.07
|73.81
|47.4||50.47||65.22||34.2
|-
|[[Nawada district|Nawada]]
|
|
|
|47.36
|61.22
|32.64|| 38.96||54.85||21.82
|-
|[[Jamui district|Jamui]]
|
|
|
|42.74
|57.1
|26.92|| 33.41||48.48||16.41
|}

==Key data==
*[[Literacy]]
** '''In Absolute Numbers'''- 5,96,75,607
***''[[Male]]'' - 3,99,78,955
***''[[Female]]'' - 1,97,96,652
** '''Percentage of Total Population''' -69%
***''[[Male]]'' - 70.32%
***''[[Female]]'' - 53.57%
** '''Percentage of Urban Population''' -81.9%
***''[[Male]]'' - 89.9%
***''[[Female]]'' - 72.6%
** '''Percentage of Rural Population''' -53.9%
***''[[Male]]'' - 67.1%
***''[[Female]]'' - 39.6%
**'''Highest [[Literacy Rate]]'''
***[[Rohtas district|Rohtas]] - 75.59%
**'''Lowest [[Literacy Rate]]'''
***[[Purnia district|Purnia]], 52.49%

==Further reading==

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==See also==

* [[Education in Bihar]]
* [[Literacy in India]]
* [[Education in India]]
* [[Literacy]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.censusindia.gov.in Official website] of [[Census of India]]
*[http://gov.bih.nic.in/Profile/ Official website] of [[Government of Bihar]]

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[[Category:Literacy in India]]
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