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Total Rural literacy rate is 43.9%. In rural areas of Bihar, Male and Female literacy rate is 57.1 and 29.6 respectively. Total Urban literacy rate is 71.9. In urban areas of Bihar, Male and Female literacy rate is 79.9 and 62.6 respectively. . [36] Total number of literates in Bihar is 3,16,75,607 which consists 2,09,78,955 Male and 1,06 ...
Almost 58% of Bihar's population was below 25 years age, which is the highest in India. In 2021, Bihar has had an urbanisation rate of 20%. [15] [85] Bihar has an adult literacy rate of 68.15% (78.5% for males and 57.8% for females) in 2020. [84] Population increased to 130,725,310 as per the Bihar caste survey conducted in 2023. [83]
Bihar is administratively divided into 9 divisions and 38 districts. For the administration of urban areas, Bihar has 19 municipal corporations , 89 nagar parishads (city councils), and 154 nagar panchayats (town councils).
As per Census 2011, Bihar is the second least urbanised state in the country, with a rate of urbanisation of 11.3%, as compared to the national rate of 31.16%. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The state has 139 StatutoryTowns and 60 Census Towns.
The growth rate in agriculture was 2.21% during the 1980s against India's 3.38%, during the 1990s it was 2.35% in Bihar while at the all-India it stood at 3.14%. [27] The economic indicators ( see below ) shows that there was a serious recession between 1990 and 1995, which resulted in an employment-development-crime crisis between 1995 and 2004.
Urbanization in India began to accelerate after independence, due to the country's adoption of a mixed economy, which gave rise to the development of the private sector. The population residing in urban areas in India, according to the 1901 census, was 11.4%, [ 1 ] increasing to 28.53% by the 2001 census, and is now currently 34% in 2017 ...
The numerous Bengali speaking Patnaites have contributed massively into fine arts, culture, education and history of Bihar in general and Patna in particular. [215] However, Magahi was the official language of the Mauryan court, in which the edicts of Ashoka were composed.
Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 26.08%. [11] Gaya has a sex ratio of 932 females for every 1,000 males, [11] and a literacy rate of 66.35%. 13.24% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 30.39% and 0.07% of the population respectively.