Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
While mass predilections in Bihar are still veering towards the male child, the Nitish Kumar government will be pleased with the provisional Census 2011 data for the State, which has indicated a 20 per cent jump in the State's female literacy rate. As per the report, literacy rates for women …
As per provisional census 2011 report, women have outnumbered the men with registering ratio more than one thousand against men in four tribal districts of State. It means the women in maximum number legged behind the men folk in these districts. Not only this, literacy rate has also scaled up …
BHUBANESWAR: Ganjam is Orissa's most populous district but Balangir records the highest growth. The Census 2011, provisional results of which were declared today, has revealed that with a population of 35,20,151 Ganjam is State's most inhabited district, followed by Cuttack with 26,18,708. Mayurbhanj and Balasore follow closely with Khurda ranked …
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir is well on path of achieving 100 percent literacy rate as the figures in respect of literacy for Census 2011 have shown an increase of more than 13 percent over the census of 2001. The same has jumped to 68.74 percent from 55 percent from the …
The steep rise in the population of Bangalore district has seen it top the population growth rate in the country. The Bangalore urban district has grown three times faster than the population of the state as a whole. Bangalore district
LUCKNOW: Exponential industrial growth and proximity to New Delhi appear to be two major reasons for Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad emerging as UP's two most sought-after districts. According to the provisional population totals of Uttar Pradesh released by the Directorate of Census Operations in UP on Tuesday, both the …
LUCKNOW: After gaining 12 healthy points since the 2001 Census, the literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh moved closer to the national average of 74.04%. The state registered a literacy rate of 69.72% in the 2011 Census. Top performers in the state, which helped in increasing the percentage by several points …
Calcutta, April 5: The rate of population growth in nine Bengal districts that share their borders with Bangladesh has come down in the past decade, a trend mainly attributed to an expansion in barbed-wire fencing and tighter vigil on illegal immigrants. The provisional data released by the Directorate of Census …
North 24-Parganas has emerged as the second most densely populated district in the country with a population of 1,00,82,852 followed by Thane in Maharashtra, according to the 2011 Census report. The statistical figures regarding population, literacy rates, sex ratio in West Bengal ~ released at Writers' Buildings today by the …
It is Allahabad -superstar Amitabh Bachchan's hometown -and not Lucknow which is the most populous district in Uttar Pradesh. Allahabad, with a population of 59.59 lakh, is followed by Moradabad has population of 47.73 lakh, Ghaziabad with 46.61 lakh and Azamgarh which has 46.16 lakh. Lucknow ranks fifth with a …
New Delhi: With the nuclear family becoming the norm in the capital and both men and women out to earn a living, many couples prefer a single child or at the most two. Census 2011 reveals that a major reason for the gradual stabilization of population growth in Delhi is …
New Delhi: With the child sex ratio dipping in Southwest district from an already poor figure of 846 females per 1000 males in 2001 to 836 females per 1000 males in Census 2011, the capital has a serious problem. The provisional data of Census 2011 shows a substantial fall in …
Kaithal/Karnal: Haryana is known to have a bias against the girl child and the provisional Census figures released last week confirmed the gloomy trend. None of the many initiatives undertaken during the past decade appears to have worked and Haryana, along with Punjab, figures at the bottom of the states …
Bihar has achieved a spectacular rise of female literacy by 107.15 per cent, ranking only next to Dadra and Nagar Haveli in the country. The overall growth rate of literacy in the State is 74.83 per cent.
