Analytics: India


India Language Data

The data below is aggregated from 756 Districts/Cities covering all 28 States and 8 Union Territories of India. Please click on a state to view rank data.


Sr No States/UT Literacy (%, Census 2023)Estd   Assamese Script   Bengali Script   Devnagri Script (Hindi)   Gurumukhi Script (Punjabi)   Kannada Script   Malayalam Script   Marathi Script   Gujarati Script   Odia Script   Perso-Arabic Script (Urdu)   Tamil Script   Telugu Script   Latin Script (English)   Other Scripts   English Multilingual Population   Script Pools # < 30, 000  
Metric Type Literacy % #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People #People
1 Andhra Pradesh 74 1,054 9,335 123,771 3,075 12,079 13,344 17,919 7,051 32,867 1,002,624 109,280 7,830,747 2,802 2,538 1,794,236 48
2 Arunachal Pradesh 80 16,710 86,241 73,109 1,756 192 1,957 680 81 2,057 611 370 538 56,905 16,713 89,406 1
3 Assam 77 1,442,139 894,049 502,481 10,559 1,007 2,077 1,784 991 6,501 2,383 1,822 7,557 67,920 7,528 355,836 21
4 Bihar 71 492 66,163 6,532,822 6,655 209 930 674 1,309 9,246 1,210,357 525 655 2,054 2,160 319,581 43
5 Chattisgarh 74 433 78,713 3,752,750 53,264 1,277 19,602 90,264 30,947 142,179 58,477 7,695 106,647 1,248 1,056 148,638 19
6 Goa 94 336 1,895 162,835 430 14,269 3,330 16,793 2,495 1,253 9,509 1,870 2,767 2,979 482 33,648 0
7 Gujarat 82 2,563 57,966 3,566,798 50,505 13,141 48,662 768,445 14,138,587 158,750 419,666 32,146 56,066 3,775 7,595 3,603,345 52
8 Haryana 80 2,477 51,511 5,717,632 476,860 2,560 12,339 9,238 5,433 10,377 37,270 10,610 7,762 2,934 1,939 1,483,387 46
9 Himachal Pradesh 84 79 940 338,806 33,903 65 227 514 275 293 1,112 194 191 302 12,061 62,019 5
10 Jharkhand 70 738 537,507 4,124,990 66,358 836 5,116 3,765 11,916 209,163 660,805 7,111 26,304 1,821 2,376 436,507 25
11 Karnataka 81 10,176 62,108 1,049,179 24,145 8,025,619 356,317 573,395 90,269 43,893 2,924,600 1,538,977 1,558,514 22,656 120,845 2,901,614 68
12 Kerala 98 2,827 14,446 83,730 1,188 40,904 13,003,149 6,604 4,291 6,286 4,742 127,574 14,468 3,301 1,873 4,021,469 19
13 Madhya Pradesh 73 1,879 49,299 11,585,146 80,504 1,742 30,002 313,818 87,058 8,072 593,422 16,079 23,835 1,845 3,651 1,042,033 56
14 Maharashtra 85 10,857 305,915 9,255,200 242,421 483,529 302,675 18,707,976 1,978,717 103,715 3,603,686 459,206 713,456 97,967 47,111 7,748,262 97
15 Manipur 81 502,746 5,378 21,356 626 163 555 225 56 253 67 256 332 97,687 2,739 295,113 2
16 Meghalaya 79 135,408 78,879 101,309 5,402 217 1,176 4,093 193 845 2,501 434 548 327,592 4,219 155,191 6
17 Mizoram 96 2,856 8,425 24,897 230 146 590 195 37 855 94 201 208 470,423 3,086 119,025 1
18 Nagaland 84 13,101 44,004 60,996 662 75 1,478 1,064 90 1,618 777 427 563 300,851 40,479 228,121 8
19 Odisha 76 460 75,081 230,027 6,929 614 2,355 1,756 9,017 2,952,330 171,390 2,050 142,499 744 8,369 931,325 28
20 Punjab 80 998 11,438 1,168,895 5,071,712 907 3,859 6,154 7,491 3,797 11,283 3,880 2,598 852 1,708 2,836,821 47
21 Rajasthan 76 2,367 43,984 9,778,696 221,940 3,095 14,854 11,788 25,632 8,894 415,705 5,007 4,483 3,842 2,759 716,718 38
22 Sikkim 86 547 4,203 124,997 314 118 479 630 123 527 1,076 261 373 194 24,525 65,866 2
23 Tamil Nadu 85 1,974 17,493 328,298 5,934 317,138 410,239 51,657 207,934 11,626 627,998 16,871,568 1,543,137 20,939 4,413 5,652,254 66
24 Telangana 73 2,062 22,346 629,743 17,882 78,416 33,725 169,256 41,556 27,413 2,849,180 104,077 7,314,895 8,049 5,763 2,212,217 39
25 Tripura 90 6,214 528,907 13,477 131 57 237 147 53 613 218 143 203 20,879 375 64,530 5
26 Uttar Pradesh 72 7,290 91,182 25,533,276 155,146 4,251 19,981 19,626 7,092 14,709 3,310,360 12,512 11,885 7,117 1,903 2,808,396 86
27 Uttarakhand 85 735 27,092 1,277,546 49,579 496 1,140 2,239 1,420 1,236 47,440 980 1,103 615 2,965 177,140 8
28 West Bengal 81 2,596 12,874,245 3,590,037 40,950 632 7,056 5,484 33,871 159,027 1,262,461 9,867 34,687 12,242 13,271 1,808,334 29
1 Andaman and Nicobar 92 129 15,199 33,782 880 185 11,552 365 162 672 1,113 29,894 32,591 2,041 146 42,339 3
2 Chandigarh 91 826 5,638 722,788 216,268 423 1,903 1,178 1,557 1,863 9,862 5,510 1,305 510 971 605,337 3
3 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 88 149 1,761 60,876 390 953 2,516 17,449 75,253 2,182 1,124 720 666 372 2,127 30,854 4
4 Jammu and Kashmir 70 4,670 8,620 2,392,403 110,910 2,546 4,783 9,385 6,943 4,967 11,735 5,831 5,818 979 4,788 616,901 11
5 Ladakh 79 227 571 11,711 1,399 198 369 1,286 235 294 1,496 405 429 23 28,565 11,312 0
6 Lakshadweep 97 1 101 85 3 7 10,703 13 11 6 5 100 7 2 166 3,245 0
7 National Capital Territory of Delhi 93 12,500 212,106 14,054,287 872,697 10,261 88,504 26,850 40,526 37,886 867,059 82,613 25,975 9,744 8,823 7,771,006 4
8 Puducherry 92 95 1,436 5,997 116 1,728 47,612 839 1,407 1,395 8,062 700,145 71,758 521 378 354,195 7
India Total 78 2,190,711 16,294,177 107,034,728 7,831,723 9,020,055 14,465,393 20,843,548 16,820,079 3,967,660 20,130,270 20,150,340 19,545,570 1,554,727 390,466 51,546,221 897