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West Bengal Literacy Rate
| S.No. | District Name | Population |
Literates |
Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Purba Medinipur | 5,095,875 |
3,923,194 |
87.02% |
| 2. | Kolkata | 4,496,694 |
3,588,137 |
86.31% |
| 3. | North Twenty Four Parganas | 10,009,781 |
7,608,693 |
84.06% |
| 4. | Howrah (Haora) | 4,850,029 |
3,605,206 |
83.31% |
| 5. | Hooghly | 5,519,145 |
4,078,388 |
81.80% |
| 6. | Kalimpong (Darjeeling) | 1,846,823 |
1,315,585 |
79.56% |
| 7. | Paschim Medinipur | 5,913,457 |
4,078,412 |
78.00% |
| 8. | South Twenty Four Parganas | 8,161,961 |
5,531,657 |
77.51% |
| 9. | Barddhaman | 7,717,563 |
5,247,208 |
76.21% |
| 10. | Nadia | 5,167,600 |
3,480,555 |
74.97% |
| 11. | Cooch Behar | 2,819,086 |
1,850,504 |
74.78% |
| 12. | Jalpaiguri | 3,872,846 |
2,498,780 |
73.25% |
| 13. | Dakshin Dinajpur | 1,676,276 |
1,083,685 |
72.82% |
| 14. | Birbhum | 3,502,404 |
2,158,447 |
70.68% |
| 15. | Bankura | 3,596,674 |
2,232,992 |
70.26% |
| 16. | Murshidabad | 7,103,807 |
4,055,834 |
66.59% |
| 17. | Purulia | 2,930,115 |
1,624,905 |
64.48% |
| 18. | Maldah | 3,988,845 |
2,086,432 |
61.73% |
| 19. | Uttar Dinajpur | 3,007,134 |
1,489,667 |
59.07% |
Literacy rate in West Bengal |
76.26% | |||