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 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 literates in Bihar is 3,16,75,607 which consists 2,09,78,955 Male and 1,06,96,652 Female. Rohtas has highest Literacy Rate of 73.37% followed by Patna (70.68%) and Bhojpur (70.47%). Sitamarhi has lowest Literacy Rate of 51.08% followed by Purnea (51.18%) and Katihar (52.24%). 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%.

The state's low literary rates stem from the regions complex educational challenges. Education in Bihar significantly lags behind other states in India.

Growth in Literacy Rate

Literacy Rate from 1951~2011[1]
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

Anubhav

Education in Bihar [2]
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

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

Key data

See also

References

  1. ^ "Census Statistics for Bihar". Archived from the original on 2008-05-24. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
  2. ^ "Census of India - Literates and educational level".
  3. ^ http://gov.bih.nic.in/Profile/CensusStats-03.htm Archived 2008-05-24 at the Wayback Machine Literacy in Bihar

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