IN

NDIA

CENSUS OF
O INDIA
A

Sta
ates
Dis
stricts
Ta
aluka
To
owns
Villlages

Po
opulation
Persons
Males
Females
Sex
S Ratio

Figu
ures att a Glan
nce

IND
DIA & GUJAR
G
RAT

Governme
G
nt of India
Ministry of Home
H
Affairs
Directo
orate of Ce
ensus Ope
eration
Guja
arat

G
GUJARAT

2001
2
35
593
5,,463
5,,463
6 ,38,,588

2011
35
6 40
5,924
7,933
6,40,930

Diff

2001

2011

Diff

47
461
2,772
2,342

25
226
245
18539

26
225
348
18225

1
-1
106
-314

T
Total

Absolute
Rural

Urban

Total

Absolute
Rurall

Urban

62,31,21,,843
58,74,47,,730
943

83,34,63,448
42,76,32,643
40,58,30,805
949

De
ecadal Growth
Persons 18,19,59,,458
Males
9,09,65,,182
Females
9,09,94,,276

9,09,73,022
4,60,30,080
4,49,42,942

9,09,86,436
4,49,35,102
4,60,51,334

Ch
hild Population
Persons 16,44,78,,150
Males
8,57,32,,470
Females
7,87,45,,680
Sex
S Ratio
919

12,12,85,762
6,30,64,665
5,82,21,097
923

Litterates
Persons
Males
Females

76,34,98,,517
43,46,83,,779
32,88,14,,738

P
Percentage
Tota
al Rural Urban
68.8
68.6
69.1

31.2 6,04,39,692 3,46,94,609 2,57,45,083

31.4 3,14,91,260 1,77,99,159 1,36,92,101
30.9 2,89,48,432 1,68,95,450 1,20,52,982
880
919
949

100.0
0
100.0
0
100.0
0

57.4
56.5
58.4

42.6
43.5
41.6

17.7
17.1
18.3

12.3
12.1
12.5

31.8
29.9
34.0

97,68,675
51,05,683
46,62,992

29,53,842
14,81,388
14,72,454

68,14,833
36,24,295
31,90,538

19.3
3
19.4
4
19.2
2

9.3
9.1
9.5

36.0
36.0
36.0

4,31,92,388
2,26,67,805
2,05,24,583
905

13.6
13.8
13.4

14.6
14.7
14.3

11.5
11.6
11.3

77,77,262
41,15,384
36,61,878
890

48,24,903
25,21,455
23,03,448
914

29,52,359
15,93,929
13,58,430
852

12.9
9
13.1
1
12.6
6

13.9
14.2
13.6

11.5
11.6
11.3

48,26,53,540
28,12,81,531
20,13,72,009

28,08,44,977
15,34,02,248
12,74,42,729

73.0
80.9
64.6

67.8
77.2
57.9

84.1 4,10,93,358 2,14,20,842 1,96,72,516

88.8 2,34,74,873 1,24,67,643 1,10,07,230
79.1 1,76,18,485
86,65,286
89,53,199

78.0
0
85.8
8
69.7
7

71.7
81.6
61.4

86.3
91.0
81.0

Sc
chedule Caste
Persons 20,13,78,,086
Males 10,35,35,,165
Females
9,78,42,,921

15,38,50,562
7,91,18,138
7,47,32,424

4,75,27,524
2,44,17,027
2,31,10,497

16.6
16.6
16.7

18.5
18.5
18.4

12.6
12.5
12.7

40,74,447
21,10,331
19,64,116

22,81,573
11,76,107
11,05,466

17,92,874
9,34,224
8,58,650

6.7
7
6.7
7
6.8
8

6.6
6.6
6.5

7.0
6.8
7.1

Sc
chedule Tribes
Persons 10,42,81,,034
Males
5,24,09,,823
Females
5,18,71,,211

9,38,19,162
4,71,26,341
4,66,92,821

1,04,61,872
52,83,482
51,78,390

8.6
8.4
8.8

11.3
11.0
11.5

2.8
2.7
2.9

89,17,174
45,01,389
44,15,785

80,21,848
40,42,691
39,79,157

8,95,326
4,58,698
4,36,628

14.8
8
14.3
3
15.3
3

23.1
22.7
23.6

3.5
3.4
3.6

To
otal Workers
Persons 48,17,43,,311
Males 33,18,65,,930
Females 14,98,77,,381

34,85,97,535
22,67,63,068
12,18,34,467

13,31,45,776
10,51,02,862
2,80,42,914

39.8
8
53.3
3
25.5
5

41.8
53.0
30.0

35.3 2,47,67,747 1,55,70,092

53.8 1,80,00,914 1,01,71,584
15.4 67,66,833
53,98,508

91,97,655
78,29,330
13,68,325

41.0
0
57.2
2
23.4
4

44.9
57.1
32.0

35.7
57.2
11.4

Ma
ain Workers
Persons 36,24,46,,420
Males 27,31,49,,359
Females
8,92,97,,061

24,57,49,270
17,80,34,713
6,77,14,557

11,66,97,150
9,51,14,646
2,15,82,504

75.2
82.3
59.6

70.5
78.5
55.6

87.6 2,03,65,374 1,18,78,120

90.5 1,65,67,695
91,41,339
77.0
37,97,679
27,36,781

84,87,254
74,26,356
10,60,898

82.2
2
92.0
0
56.1
1

76.3
89.9
50.7

92.3
94.9
77.5

Ma
arginal Workers
Persons 11,92,96,,891
Males
5,87,16,,571
Females
6,05,80,,320

10,28,48,265
4,87,28,355
5,41,19,910

1,64,48,626
99,88,216
64,60,410

24.8
17.7
40.4

29.5
21.5
44.4

12.4
9.5
23.0

7,10,401
4,02,974
3,07,427

17.8
8
8.0
0
43.9
9

23.7
10.1
49.3

7.7
5.1
22.5

1,21,05,69
9,573

37,71,06,125 100.0
19,54,89,200 100.0
18,16,16,925 100.0
929

P
Percentage
Tota
al Rural Urban

44,02,373
14,33,219
29,69,154

36,91,972
10,30,245
26,61,727

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UJARAT-20
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opulation : As per
p Census 2011, the total popula
ation
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off Gujarat State at 0.00 hours of 1st March 2011 is 6.04

6
crrore. Of this, the rural population is 3.47 crore and the
urrban population 2.57
2
crore. Incre
ease of 97.69 la
akhs
sin
nce last decade. Banas Kantha diistrict has the larg
gest
rural population of 27.05 lakhs (7.8%
% of the states rural
r
opulation) wherea
as Ahmadabad district has the larg
gest
po
urrban population of
o 60.63 lakhs (2
23.6% of the sta
ates
urrban population) in
n the state.
De
ecadal Growth
h Rate : The growth rate is 19.3%
(R
Rural 9.3% and Urban
U
36.0%). Do
ohad district (30.8%)
ha
as recorded the highest growth rate
e in rural and Vallsad
dis
strict (66.7%) has
s the highest grow
wth rate in urban.
Po
opulation Dens
sity : is 308 sho
owing an increase
e of
50
0 points from 2001.
2
Surat distrrict (1,337) is most
m
de
ensely inhabited and
a lowest densitty in Kachchh dis
strict
(46).
Rural-Urban Prroportion : Th
he rural popula
ation
co
onstitutes 57.4% and urban popu
ulation 42.6% of the
total population. Do
ohad district (91.0%) has the high
hest
e Ahmadabad dis
strict
prroportion of rural population, while
(8
84.0%) has the hig
ghest proportion of
o urban population.
Se
ex Ratio : The Sex
S Ratio in the decreased
d
by 1 po
oint.
In rural area, it has
s increased by 4 points
p
and there is
s no
hange in of urban
n areas. Tapi district has recorded the
ch
hig
ghest sex ratio in respect of Tota
al (1,007) and Rural
R
(1,012) and for urrban the Dangs district recorded the
ghest sex (1,038)). The lowest sex
x ratio in total as well
hig
as
s in urban areas recorded
r
in Surat district (787 and 756
re
espectively) and fo
or rural lowest sex
x ration has recorrded
in Kachchh district (911).
(
Child Population
n (0-6 years) : stands
s
at 77.77 lak
khs.
Off this, 48.25 lakh
hs were returned
d in rural areas and
29
9.52 lakhs in urb
ban areas. It has
s increased by 2.45
2
lakhs in the state. There
T
has been a decline of 2.61 la
akhs
in rural areas and an increase of 5.06 lakhs in urrban
hild population to the
arreas. In terms of proportion of ch
total population, there
t
has been
n a decline of 2.1
ercentage points in rural areas and 1.4 percenttage
pe
po
oints in urban areas. The gro
owth rate of Child
C
po
opulation works out to 3.3% in
n the last deca
ade.
Ho
owever, there has
s been a decline of
o 5.1% in rural arreas
an
nd an increase of 20.7% in urban areas.

Child Se
ex Ratio (0-6 ye
ears) :is increase
ed from 883 to
890 poits
s 2001-2011. The increase has bee
en to the tune
of 8 pointts (906 to 914) in rural areas and 15
1 points (837
to 852) in
n urban areas ove
er the last decade.. Lowest Child
Sex Ratio
o has been recorrded in Surat disttrict (835) and
highest in
n The Dangs district (964).
Schedulled Caste: Pro
oportion of the SC
S population
constitute
es 6.7% of the tottal population which decline by
0.4% . The highest propo
ortion of Schedule
ed Caste has
recorded in Kachchh distrrict (12.4%) and the lowest in
ngs district (0.4%
%). The Growth Rate of SC
The Dan
population is 13.4%. The
e highest numbe
er of SC has
recorded in Ahmadabad district (7.59 lakhs) and the
lowest in The Dangs districct (992).
Schedulled Tribe: Pro
oportion, the ST population
constitute
es 14.8%. The highest proportion of Scheduled
Tribes ha
as recorded in Th
he Dangs districtt (94.6%) and
the lowes
st in Bhavnagar d
district (0.3%).The
e Growth Rate
of ST pop
pulation is 19.2%. The highest num
mber of ST has
recorded in Dohad district (15.8) lakhs and the lowest in
Amreli dis
strict (7,322).
Effective
e Literacy Rate
e: is 78.0 % (Rurral 71.7% &
Urban 86.3%). There has been an inc
crease of 8.9
ge points (10.4 pe
ercentage points in rural areas
percentag
and 4.5 percentage
p
points in urban areas). Male Literacy
is 85.8%
% (Rural 81.6%
% & Urban 91.0%). Female
Literacy rate
r
is 69.7% (Rural 61.4% & Urb
ban 81.0%).
The fema
ale literacy rate has increased siignificantly by
11.9 perc
centage points in the last decade (Rural 13.6
percentag
ge points and Urb
ban 6.5 percenttage points). It
is signific
cant to note that tthe gap in literac
cy rate among
males and females has red
duced from 21.9.
Work Pa
articipation Ra
ate : is 41.0% (m
males - 57.2%
female is 23.4%. Tapi disttrict (55.9%) ranks
s first in WPR
w
as well a
as rural areas (5
57.9%) and in
for total workers
urban are
eas, the highest WPR has recorrded in Surat
district (4
40.4%). In urban areas, the lowe
est WPR has
recorded in The Dangs district (29.9%) and in rural
achchh district (37
7.9%). The lowestt female WPR
areas, Ka
has been
n reported from Ahmadabad district (13.6%) and
the lowes
st male WPR ha
as been reported
d from Dohad
district (5
50.6%). The highe
est male WPR ha
as recorded in
Surat district (63.0%) and female WPR ha
as recorded in
gs district (49.7%)).
The Dang