Literacy Status:

The Literacy Assessment Survey, 2011 found overall literacy rate 53.7% for population of age 11 to 44
years. Following is the Summary of Key findings from the LAS 2011 :

Rural Literacy Rate (50.6%) is found to be much lower than that of urban areas (65.6%).
Advanced level literacy rate (40.3%) is found much more higher compared to that of initial level
literacy rate (13.3%).
Literacy rate varies widely across the administrative divisions of the country. The highest literacy
rate (61.3%) is found in Barisal division and the lowest (45.4%) is found in Sylhet division.
Percentage of population with different levels of literacy varies across rural and urban areas of
the six divisions of that time in the country. It is highest (61.7%) in Barisal followed by Rajshahi
(55.0%).
The distribution of scores for the rural and urban areas shows remarkable difference. In rural
area 36.5% respondents obtained a score 10 or less while in urban areas 24.7% scored 10 or
less. On the other hand, 21.2% respondents secured 91 or more in rural areas while 34.9%
respondents secured 91 or more in urban areas.

The Literacy Rate (Literate at initial level and Literate at advanced level) for population of age 11-14
years population are found as follows :
Sex
Male
Female
Total

Rural
68.4
73.3
70.2

Urban
74.9
79.0
76.3

Total
69.8
74.4
71.4

Female literacy rate is higher than that of male wherever he/she resides.
Urban literacy rate is higher compared to rural.
Remarkable difference is observed for male-female and urban-rural.
The highest 76.0% respondents are literate in Barisal division and the lowest 59.4% respondents
are literate in Sylhet division.

The Literacy Rate (literate at initial level and literate at advanced level) for 15-45 years
population are as follows :

Sex Rural Urban Total

Male 51.2 67.7 54.6

Female 44.5 60.8 47.9

Total 47.9 64.3 51.3

-15
years age group (71.5%), which gradually decreases with increase in age. The literacy rate is
34.4% for population who belongs to the age group 41-45.

Residence Muslim Non-Muslim Both

Rural 49.9 54.6 50.5
Urban 64.7 73.0 65.6
Total 53.1 57.9 53.7

e literacy rate of Non-Muslim is higher compared to Muslim both in urban and rural
areas. In rural areas difference of literacy rate between Muslim and Non-Muslim is
comparatively lower than that of urban.
7.0% but it is 53.3% in male headed
household.

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