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Table 3.8: Literacy, Female Literacy and Work Participation Rate in India by religious Communities.
Religious Communities Hindus Muslims Christians Sikhs Buddhists Jains Others Total/ Average
Literacy Rate
65.1 59.1 80.3 69.4 72.7 94.1 47.0
Female Literacy Rate
53.2 50.1 76.2 63.1
Participation
40.4 31.3 39.7 37.7 40.6 32.9 48.4 39.1
61.7
90.6
64.4
Source: Census of India, 2001
Table 3.9: Literacy rate among the Jains, 2001
Jain
State/Union Territory
Total population
Population
97.4
42,25,053 2,518 1,408 39,276 2,592 9,249 57,167 1,55,122 6,50,493 2,07,11 16,085
98.5
90.8
183
India Jammu & Kashmir Himachal Pradesh Punjab Chandigarh Uttaranchal Haryana Delhi Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh Bihar Sikkim Arunachal Pradesh Nagaland Manipur Mizoram Tripura Meghalaya Assam West Bengal Jharkhand Orissa Chhattisgarh Madhya Pradesh Gujarat
1,02,86,10,32 1,01,43,700 60,77,900 2,43,58,999 9,00,635 84,89,349 2,11,44,564 1,38,50,507 5,65,07,188 16,61,97,921 8,29,98,509 5,40,851 10,97,968 19,90,036 21,66,788 8,88,573 31,99,203 23,18,822 2,66,55,528 8,01,76,197 2,69,45,829 3,68,04,660 2,08,33,803 6,03,48,023 5,06,71,017
Literacy Male Female rate literacy literacy
rate rate 94.1 97.4 90.6 86.5
89.2 83.3 96.3
97.7 94.8 95.9
94.2 97.3 98.7 95.8 96.3
98.2 94.4 94.2
97.4 90.7 96.8
95.1 94.0 98.6 89.3 93.2 95.9 90.3 93.3 95.7 90.7
93.8 86.2 85.2 91.7 75.7 94.5
96.6 92.2 94.5 95.4 93.5
55.7 82.9 86.9 78.4 69.9
65.3 95.3
97.2 93.0 92.8 96.5 88.9 90.9 95.6 86.0 93.3
96.6 89.6 96.8
98.7 94.8 96.2
93.6 96.0
93.5 79 | Jains in India and Abroad
61.7
65.9
74.1
216 2,093 1461 179 477 772 23,957 55,223 16,301 9,154 56,103 5,45,446 5,25,305
98.5 98.4
