Selected Socio - Economic Indicators - 2008 | Page 2 | Official Website of Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Puducherry, India.

Item	Year	Unit	Puducherry	Karaikal	Mahe	Yanam	Union Territory
Area
Area	2001 Census	Sq.km.	293	160	9	17	479
Density	"	per sq.km.	2510	1067	4092	1847	2034
Towns	"	No.	3	1	1	1	6
Population	2001 Census	lakh	7.35	1.71	0.37	0.31	9.74
Urban Population	"	%	68.81	43.58	100.00	100.00	66.57
Rural Population	"	%	31.19	56.42	--	--	33.43
Male	"	%	50.2	49.5	46.6	50.6	49.98
Female	"	%	49.8	50.5	53.4	49.4	50.02
Decadal growth	"	%	20.88	17.22	10.11	54.67	20.62
Sex ratio	"	per ‘000 Males	990	1022	1147	975	1001
Literacy rate
Persons	2001 Census	%	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
Projected Population - 2008		in lakh	8.39	1.90	0.39	0.41	11.10
Rain fall	2007-08	mm	1417	1542	4030	1142	--
Agriculture
Net area sown	2006-07	in Hect.	12577	6650	626	632	20485
Total area irrigated	"	"	20654	6887	44	598	28183
Foodgrains Production	"	in M.T	42480	17672	--	2221	62373
Fish Production
Marine	2007-08	M.T	18860	8478	3856	2079	33273
Inland	"	"	3321	1570	-	1028	5510
Animal Husbandry
Milk Production	2007-08	M.T	32833	10909	421	766	44929
Egg Production	"	in. lakh	75.88	28.26	1.52	2.64	108.30
Public Health (Government of Puducherry Institutions)
Hospitals	2007-08	No.	5	1	1	1	8
Chest Clinic	"	"	1	--	--	--	1
Primary Health Centres	"	"	27	11	1	--	39
Community Health Centres	"	"	2	1	1	--	4

Item	Year	Unit	Puducherry	Karaikal	Mahe	Yanam	Union Territory
Sub-Centres	2007-08	No.
Urban	"	"	17	--	4	4	25
Rural	"	"	35	17	--	--	52
ESI Dispensaries	"	"	11	1	1	1	14
Doctors*	"	"	410	98	43	35	586
Nurses*	"	"	847	278	86	60	1271
Beds	"	"	1625	628	203	100	2556
Education
Primary
i. No. of Institutions	2007-08	No.	208	74	15	12	309
ii. No. of Students	"	"	25810	5694	2253	2948	36705
Middle
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	81	24	5	2	112
ii. No. of Students	"	"	19678	6896	1594	908	29076
Secondary
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	113	33	6	11	163
ii. No. of Students	"	"	49996	14069	2469	5706	72240
Higher Secondary
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	74	15	5	1	95
ii. No. of Students	"	"	90999	12671	4646	348	108664
Teacher Pupil Ratio
Primary	2007-08		1:20	1:17	1:26	1:61	1:21
Middle	"		1:20	1:21	1:20	1:82	1:21
High/Higher Sec.	"		1:26	1:26	1:21	1:26	1:26
No. of girls per 100 boys
Primary	2007-08	No.	99	139	89	106	105
Middle	"	"	108	84	88	108	101
High/Higher Sec.	"	"	93	95	94	95	93
Public Distribution System
No.of Fair Price Shops	2007	No.	324	88	18	18	448
Ration shops run by Co-operative institutions			263	68	18	18	367

Item	Year	Unit	Puducherry	Karaikal	Mahe	Yanam	Union Territory
Labour and Employment *
State Government Employees	2006-07	No.	23391	5295	1549	1036	31271
Central Government Employees	"	"	4064	85	54	57	4260
Autonomous Bodies Employees	"	"	6797	782	106	103	7788
Local Bodies Employees	"	"	2034	490	61	96	2681
Banking
No. of Scheduled Commercial Banks/Branches	As on March 2008	No.	75	22	5	2	104
Deposits	"	Rs. in crore	3869	617	185	51	4722
Credit	"	"	2003	255	52	23	2332
Population per Office	"	No.	11187	8663	7877	20493	10673
Transport
Road length (by PWD)	2007-08	km.	440.344	188.417	22.319	26.445	677.525
Regd. Motor vehicle	2006-07	No.	323584	51192	5526	5015	385317
Tourism
Tourist arrival
i. Foreign Tourist	2007	No	57265	417	--	--	57682
ii. Domestic Tourist	"	"	655056	143472	--	--	798528
Co-operative
No. of Societies	2005-06	No.	357	85	25	34	501
Membership	"	Nos	389967	94142	36630	16787	537526
Primary Agricultural Credit Socities	"	No.	46	6	1	--	53
Membership	"	"	66260	9788	177	--	76225
Rural Development
No. of groups formed under SGSY	2007-08	No.	195	60	--	14	269
No. of Houses constructed under IAY	"	"	76	22	--	3	101
Mandays generated under SGRY	"	Lakh Mandays	0.105	0.28	0.001	0.023	0.409
* Provisional