According to census of India 2011 the literacy rate of India was:

NCERT (2025-26): “2.5 Literacy … Literacy varies considerably across gender, across regions, and across social groups. As can be seen from Table 4, the literacy rate for women is 16.3% less than the literacy rate for men. However, female literacy has been rising faster than male literacy, partly because it started from relatively low levels. Female literacy rose by about 10.4 per cent between 2001 and 2011 compared to the rise in male literacy of 7.6 per cent in the same period.…”

Table 4: Literacy Rate in India (NCERT 2025-26)