As of 2011, Tamil had a population of 10,054, 50 percent male/50 percent female, with a male literacy rate of 75 percent and a female literacy rate of 59 percent.
At the 2011 India census, Tamil Nadu had a population of 72,147,030. The sex ratio of the state is 995 with 36,137,975 males and 36,009,055 females. The state has 51,837,507 literates, making the literacy rate 80.33 per cent. 
