Census 2011 released the education level report in India on Wednesday. The data has been divided on the basis of religious community and gender.
According to the report:
- The highest percentage of illiterates: 42 per cent (Muslims)
- The highest percentage of literates: 86.4 per cent (Jains)
Percentage of illiterates:
- Hindus: 36.4 per cent
- Sikhs: 32.5 per cent
- Buddhists: 28.2 per cent
- Christian: 25.6 per cent
- Overall: 36.9 per cent
Percentage of literates
- Christians: 74.3 per cent
- Buddhists: 71.8 per cent
- Sikhs: 67.5
- Hindus: 63.6 per cent
- Muslims: 57.3 per cent
Percentage of students who have received higher education and pursued graduation: 5.63 per cent.
Graduation
- Men: 61.6 per cent
- Women: 38.4 per cent
Individuals of different communities in the age group of 7-16
- Illiterate: 11.7 per cent
- Literate: 1.46 per cent
- Below primary level education: 36. 67 per cent
- Primary level education: 28. 62 per cent
- Middle school level education: 15.56 per cent
- Matriculation: 5.69 per cent
Individuals of different communities in the age group of 17-18
- Illiterate: 16.25 per cent
- Literate without formal education: 4.20 per cent
- Below primary level education: 5.73 per cent
- Primary level education: 14.93 per cent
- Middle school level education: 19.66 per cent
- Matriculation: 11.58 per cent
- Higher secondary level: 16.84 per cent
- Non-technical diploma: 0.20 per cent
- Technical diploma: 1.56 per cent
- Graduates and above: 10.91 per cent
Women leading in higher education:
Surprisingly, women are leading in higher education. An unprecedented figure of 36.65 per cent Muslim women graduates have been recorded and similarly, in other communities, 44.8 per cent Jain women, 49.8 Christian women, 49.9 per cent Sikh women, 38.15 per cent Buddhist women and 37.5 per cent Hindu women are recorded as graduates.
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