World Development Indicators

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above): India

Most recent: 78.16 (2024)
Earliest: 40.76 (1981)
Highest: 81.7 (2023)
Years reported: 14 of 44 in the span
Member state: India at the United Nations

Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above), 1981–2024. Bars, not a line: a line drawn across a year the source does not report would invent an observation a reader could not tell from a measured one.

The World Bank reports 14 of the 44 years between 1981 and 2024 for India. The missing 30 are drawn as gaps, because a gap is what they are.

Every year reported

Year	Adult literacy rate
2024	78.16
2023	81.7
2022	76.32
2021	76.06
2020	75.53
2019	74.89
2018	73.69
2012	69.83
2011	69.3
2010	68.33
2006	62.75
2001	61.01
1991	48.22
1981	40.76

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