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