Gender gap in literacy

Choropleth map of India by state: Gender gap in literacy. Rajasthan's literacy gap is 23.2 percentage points, ten times Kerala's 2.2. The 14 states left grey are not included in the published round.
Rajasthan's literacy gap is 23.2 percentage points, ten times Kerala's 2.2. The 14 states left grey are not included in the published round.
Policy implication
A literacy gap among people aged 7 and above is an accumulated record, not a current one: it holds decades of school enrolment inside a single number, and closing it has a floor set by how long people live.
NSS 75th round (MoSPI) 2017-18GenderNSSliteracygender
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Data vintage. The figures are for 2017-18 and have not been refreshed since this map was made.

Source: NSS 75th round (MoSPI) (2017-18). See the methodology for notes and limitations.

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