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POPULATION - INDICATORS (Based on 2001 Census) - 2009
| Sl. No. |
Details | Unit | Region wise |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puducherry | Karaikal | Mahe | Yanam | State | |||
| 1 | Total Population | Nos. | 735332 | 170791 | 36828 | 31394 | 974345 |
| Male | " | 369428 | 84487 | 17153 | 15893 | 486961 | |
| Female | " | 365904 | 86304 | 19675 | 15501 | 487384 | |
| 2 | Growth rate 1991-2001 | % | 20.88 | 17.22 | 10.11 | 54.67 | 20.62 |
| 3 | Sex ratio (Females per '000 Males) |
990 | 1022 | 1147 | 975 | 1001 | |
| 4 | Density - Persons (per Sq.Km) | Nos. | 2510 | 1067 | 4092 | 1847 | 2034 |
| 5 | Percentage of SC to total population | % | 16.45 | 18.07 | 0.33 | 18.48 | 16.19 |
| 6 | Literacy rate (persons aged 7 years +) | 80.66 | 81.94 | 95.66 | 73.72 | 81.24 | |
| Male | 88.44 | 89.40 | 97.64 | 78.82 | 88.62 | ||
| Female | 72.84 | 74.68 | 93.98 | 68.50 | 73.90 | ||
| 7 | Percentage of workers to total Population | 36.16 | 33.70 | 25.27 | 31.56 | 35.17 | |
| Male | 53.65 | 52.65 | 44.81 | 52.32 | 53.12 | ||
| Female | 18.50 | 15.16 | 8.24 | 10.28 | 17.23 | ||
| 8 | Category of workers in percentage to total Workers |
% | |||||
| Cultivators | 3.13 | 3.96 | 0.27 | 2.71 | 3.18 | ||
| Agricultural Labourers | 19.95 | 29.19 | 2.36 | 21.95 | 21.09 | ||
| Household Industry | 1.91 | 1.59 | 0.92 | 2.73 | 1.85 | ||
| Other workers | 75.01 | 65.26 | 96.44 | 72.60 | 73.8 | ||
Source: Directorate of Census Operations, Puducherry
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