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Literacy rate in India 2015

India: Literacy rate from 1981 to 2015

The data displays the literacy rate in India from 1981 to 2015. The source defines literacy rate as the percentage of people aged 15 and above who can read and write. In 2015, the degree of literacy in India was 71.96%.

1981	40.76	54.84	25.68
1991	48.22	61.64	33.73
2001	61.01	73.41	47.84
2006	62.75	75.19	50.82
2011	69.3	78.88	59.28
2015	71.96	80.94	62.98

Literacy rate in India 2015

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