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This is a list of districts in the Indian state of West Bengal ranked by literacy rate as per provisional data of 2011 census. [1]With a literacy rate of 96.26% (male 90.69% and female 96.54%), above the national average of 90.04%, as per the 2011 Census, West Bengal ranks 20th amongst the 36 states and union territories in India in terms of literacy rate.
Literacy rates as %age of population by States and Union territories State or UT Census 2011 [2] NSO survey ... West Bengal: 76.36: 81.69 70.54 80.50: 84.80 76.10
The literacy rate is 77.08%, ... West Bengal's total fertility rate was 1.6, lower than neighbouring Bihar's 3.4, which is the highest in the entire country. Bengal's ...
Literacy rate 1 Kolkata: Kolkata, North 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas, Nadia, Howrah, Hooghly, ... West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corp ...
According to the 2011 census, the district has a literacy rate of 87.66 [21] up from 80.20% of 2001 census. As per 2001 census, this district had a male literacy rate of 89.1% and female literacy rate was 70.7%. The education index of this district is 0.74 [20] and it is ranked first in literacy in comparison to other districts of West Bengal. [22
Paschim Medinipur, located in the south-western part of West Bengal, was created with the partition of the erstwhile Midnapore district, then the largest district of India, on 1 January 2002. It ranks second in terms of geographical area (9,295.28 km 2 ) amongst the districts of the state, next to South 24-Parganas (9,960 km 2 ).
The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 9.09%. [9] According to the 2011 Census of India, literacy in the South 24 Parganas district was 77.51%. [13] Literacy in West Bengal was 77.08% in 2011. [14] Literacy in India in 2011 was 74.04%. [14]
The literacy rate in Uttar Dinajpur district at 60.13% in 2011, up from 47.89% in 2001, was the lowest amongst all districts of West Bengal. The highest literacy rate amongst the districts of West Bengal was that of Purba Medinipur district at 87.66% in 2011. [25] See also – List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate