Overall literacy in India is approximately 74.04 per cent (2011). while female literacy is 65.46 per cent.

Total literacy as well as female literacy is higher than the national average in most of the states from south India.

There are wide regional disparities in literacy rate across the states of India. There is a state like Bihar which has very low (63.82 per cent) literacy and there are states like Kerala and Mizoram which have literacy rates of 93.91 and 91.58 per cent respectively.

All of the above