Literacy rate for STs improved from 47.1% in 2001 to 59% in 2011: Census

The literacy rate for the total population increased from 64.8 per cent in 2001 to 73 per cent in 2011

The population of Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the country, according to Census 2011, is 104.49 million. STs constitute 8.6 per cent of the country’s total population and 11.3 per cent of the total rural population.

The population of ST males is 52.5 million and ST females 52 million.

The decadal growth of ST population in 2011, compared with 2001, reveals that the ST female population growth rate (25 per cent) is higher than the ST male population growth rate (23 per cent).

The sex ratio with reference to STs is 990 — this is higher than the national average of 943.