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With 96.2%, Kerala has once again etched its place as the most literate state in India, followed by national capital Delhi at 89%, revealed data from a report on education released by the National Statistical Office (NSO). There has often been a conjecture around South Indian states being more literate than the North, however, the latest data debunked that.
The data, which is for 2017-18 and for all aged 7 or more, showed that the popular idea of “developed states” can be misleading with regard to literacy.
According to the report, the southern state of Andhra Pradesh has ranked the worst among all states in India in terms of literacy rate, behind Bihar’s 70.9%. While Andhra’s literacy rate is at 66.4%, Telangana’s is 72.8%, which worse than the national average of 77.7% and Karnataka’s is 77.2%.
Meanwhile, Assam and Uttarakhand shared the top four positions with 85.9% and 87.6%, respectively, after Kerala and Delhi among the major states and Union Territories.
In Kerala, the gap between male and female literacy is the thinnest at just 2.2 percentage points. For perspective, at the all-India level, the gap is 14.4 percentage points with male literacy at 84.7% and female literacy at 70.3%. Besides the gender-wise gap in literacy rate, Kerala has the lowest gap between urban and rural literacy rates with 1.9 percentage points.
Kerala Trumps States in Literacy Rate, Delhi Emerges 2nd Best; Andhra Ranks Worst
The data, which is for 2017-18 and for all aged 7 or more, showed that the popular idea of “developed states” can be misleading with regard to literacy.
According to the report, the southern state of Andhra Pradesh has ranked the worst among all states in India in terms of literacy rate, behind Bihar’s 70.9%. While Andhra’s literacy rate is at 66.4%, Telangana’s is 72.8%, which worse than the national average of 77.7% and Karnataka’s is 77.2%.
Meanwhile, Assam and Uttarakhand shared the top four positions with 85.9% and 87.6%, respectively, after Kerala and Delhi among the major states and Union Territories.
In Kerala, the gap between male and female literacy is the thinnest at just 2.2 percentage points. For perspective, at the all-India level, the gap is 14.4 percentage points with male literacy at 84.7% and female literacy at 70.3%. Besides the gender-wise gap in literacy rate, Kerala has the lowest gap between urban and rural literacy rates with 1.9 percentage points.
Kerala Trumps States in Literacy Rate, Delhi Emerges 2nd Best; Andhra Ranks Worst
and what they gonna do with so much literacy?