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CENSUS OF INDIA 2001 SERIES-1 INDIA PROVISIONAL POPULATION TOTALS Paper - 1 of 2001 Supplement DISTRICT TOTALS JAYANT KUMAR BANTHIA of the Indian Administrative Service Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India CONTENTS Preface v Acknowledgements vii Chapter-1 Size, Distribution and Growth of Population 1-31 Chapter-2 Sex Composition of the Population 33-56 Chapter-3 Literacy Status 57-98 Li;5t of Maps Map- 1 Most populous districts 2001 -India [Districts] 7 Map- 2 Density of population 2001 -India [Districts] 13 Map- 3 Percentage decadal growth of population 1991-2001 -India [Districts] 21 Map- 4 Percentage of child population in age group 0-6 2001 - India [Districts] 25 Map- 5 Sex ratio of population 2001 -India [Districts] 35 Map- 6 Child sex ratio in age group 0-6 200'1 -India [Districts] 43 Map- 7 Literacy rate 2001 - India [Districts] 67 Map- 8 Male literacy rate 2001 -India [Districts] 71 Map- 9 Female literacy rate 2001 - India [Districts] 79 Map-10 Percentage change in male illiterates 1991-2001 -India [Districts] 87 Map -11 Percentage change in female illiterates 1991-2001 - India [Districts] 89 List of Inset Maps Inset (i) Districts with decadal growth below ten petcent : 1991-2001' 23 Inset (ii) Districts with decadal growth thirty percent or more: 1991-2001 23 Inset (iii) Districts with increase in growth rate between decades 1981-91 and 1991-2001 23 Inset (iv) Districts with nine and above percent point decrease in growth rate between decades 1981-91 and 1991-2001 23 Inset (v) Districts with child population in age group 0-6, below twelve percent: 2001 27 Inset (vi) Districts with child population in age group 0-6, twenty percent and above: 2001 27 Inset (vii) Districts with sex ratio 1,000 and above: 2001 39 Inset (viii) Districts with sex ratio below 850: 2001 39 Inset (ix) Districts with an increase of above thirty points in sex ratio: 1991-2001 39 Inset (x) Districts showing decrease in sex ratio: 1991-2001 39 Inset (xi) Districts with child sex ratio below 850 in age group.o-6 : 2001 47 Inset (xii) Districts showing increase in chil~ sex ratio in age group 0-6: 1991-2001 47 Inset (xiii) Districts showing increase of fifty and above points in child sex ratio in age group 0-6: 1991-2001 47 Inset (xiv) Districts with literacy rate below forty percent: 2001 65 Inset (xv) Districts with literacy rate eighty percent and above: 2001 65 Inset (xvi) Districts with male literacy rate below fifty percent: 2001 73 Ihset (xvii) Districts with male literacy rate ninety percent and above: 2001 73 Inset (xviii) Districts with female literacy rate below thirty percent: 2001 77 Inset (xix) Districts with female literacy rate seventy percent and above: 2001 77 iii List of Diagrams Fig. 1 Scatter diagram showing percentage decadal growth and percentage of child population in the age group 0-6, India: 1991 19 Fig. 2 Scatter diagram showing percentage decadal growth and percentage of child population in the age group 0-6, India: 2001 19 Fig. 3 Scatter diagram showing male and female literacy rates India: 1991 83 Fig. 4 Scatter diagram showing male and female literacy rates India: 2001 83 Fig. 5 Scatter diagram showing female literacy rate and percentage of child population in the age group 0-6 to total population India: 1991 95 Fig. 6 Scatter diagram showing female literacy rate and percentage of child population in the age group 0-6 to total population India: 2001 95 Provisional Population Tables Table-1 Population, decadal growth rate, sex ratio and density - States/Union territories and Districts: 2001 101-117 Table-2 Total population, child population in the age group 0-6, literates and literacy rates by sex - States/Union territories and Districts: 2001 118--149 Table-3 Districts arranged by descending order of population size: 2001 150-164 ~Table-4 Districts arranged by descending order of geographical area (Square Kilometers) : 2001 165-172 Table-5 Districts arranged by descending order of population density (Persons per Square Kilometers): 2001 173-180 Table-6 Districts arranged by descending order of percentage growth rate: 181-188 199f-2001 Table-7 Districts arranged by descending order of percentage of child population in the age group 0-6 to total population : ~01 189-203 Table-8 Districts arranged by descending order of sex ratio of population: 2001 204-211 Table-9 Districts arranged by descending order of sex ratio of child population in the age group 0-6 : 2001 212-219 Table-10 Districts arranged by descending order of literacy rate of persons: 2001 220-227 Table-11 Districts arranged by descending order of literacy rate of males: 2001 228--235 Table-12 Districts arranged by descending order of literacy rate of females: 2001 236-243 TabJe-13 Decadal difference in literacy rate and male-female gap in literacy rate : 1991-2001 244-259 Table-14 Districts arranged by descending order of Percentage decadal decrease of illiterate persons: 2001 260-274 TabJe-1S Districts arranged by descending order of percentage decadal decrease of illiterate males: 2001 275-289 Table-16 Districts arranged by descending order of percentage decadal decrease of illiterate females: 2001 290-304 Annexures Annexure 1 Household Schedule 306-307 Annexure II List of new districts 308-312 Annexure III Census results in media 313-314 iv PREFACE Series-1 : India Provisional Population Totals, Paper-1 of 2001, publ!shed earlier presented State wise population totals by sex, child population age group 0-6 and literates. The State volumes of Paper-1 released by the Directors of Census Operations in the States and Union territories included the same data set at the district level for the respective States/Union territories. The present publication titled 'Series-1: India 'Provisional Population Totals, Paper-1 of 2001; Supplement District Totals,' is aimed at providing the basic data for Census of India, 2001, on population, child population age group 0-6 and literates by sex at the district level for all the States and Union territories of the country in one volume. The district level analysis of any population characteristics helps in gaining deeper insights into the pattern of distribution of these variables over space. It also helps in identifying ttie deficient areas even within the better performing States and the brighter areas within the not so well performing ones. A brief analysis on various aspects, namely, population size and growth, sex ratio, sex ratio of children in the age group 0-6 and literacy has been attempted in this volume. The publication is also interspread with maps and charts. TabJe-1 and TabJe-2 are the two basic tables in this publication that provide data on population, population in the age group 0-6 and literates by sex at the district level. These tables also provide decadal growth rates for the period 1981-1991 and 1991-2001 and sex ratio, density and literacy rates for the 1991 and 2001 censuses at the district level. The district data of the 1981 and 1991 Censuses have been recasted based on the jurisdiction of the districts at the Census of India, 2001 to make it cQmparable wherever possible. However, the recast data may also be treated as provisional. In Chapter-1 several aspects of district population such as the absolute and relative size, growth rate, population density and most importantly relationship between child population in the age group 0-6 and the overall growth rate is discussed. As India's population continues to grow, the question of ideal distribution of population has become increasingly important for ensuring an effective district administrative set up. If the population is going to stabilize by 2050 ultimately how many districts will our country have? It is anybody's guess but may be anywhere between 900-1000. This large number of distri9ts itself has grave implications not only for effective policy formulation and implementation but because of the costs involved in setting up and maintaining the district infrastructure for regulatory and development administration. Chapter-2 highlights the distribution pattern of the male and female population across various districts in the country. An important finding is that in as many as 455 districts the overall sex ratio has improved. The redeeming feature of Census of India, 2001, has been to make some use of the data available for population in the age group 0-6 while analyzing the patterns of sex ratio. Since by and large, this particular age group is not affected by sex selective migration, it has the potential to provide information on the recent trends in sex-ratio of the younger population. There are some disturbing findings which comes out of this preliminary analysis. For example, it sugg'ests that the maximum value of the child sex ratio in Punjab and Haryana are lower than the minimum value of the vast majority of districts of other states. An-other disturbing trend is that while for the 1991 Census, only Salem district in Tamil Nadu reported a very low child sex ratio, now from the 2001 Census results, it appears that there are as many as forty eight districts in the country with very adverse child sex ratio of below 850 girls for every one thousand boys. This surely does not augur well for the girl child and demands an immediate intervention to arrest this growing unhealthy trend and a greater advocacy for improving the lot of the fairer sex. In Chapter-3, the current status of literacy and illiterates as reflected from the district level data for Census of India, 2001 is analysed at length. One of the satisfying achievement of the decade 1991-2001 is the unprecedented improvement in overall literacy rate particularly that of women.