Jamui (District)

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Jamui District
District map
State Bihar
Administrative headquarters : Jamui
Area : 3098 km²
Residents : 1,760,405 (2011)
Population density : 568 inhabitants / km²
Website : jamui.bih.nic.in/

Jamui is a district in the Indian state of Bihar .

The area is 3098 km². The administrative seat is the city of Jamui .

population

The population is 1,760,405 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 25.85% and was therefore very high. Jamui has a gender ratio of 922 women per 1000 men and thus a male surplus typical for India. The district has a literacy rate of 59.79% in 2011, an increase of almost 17 percentage points compared to 2001. However, literacy is still well below the national average. Almost 87% of the population are Hindus , around 12% are Muslims and around 0.5% are Christians .

Only 8.3% of the population live in cities.

economy

According to official statistics, the Jamui district is one of the 250 most backward districts in India, which is divided into a total of 640 districts. The district belongs to the so-called Red Corridor of backward and poor areas, in which Naxalites are active due to the high inequality and quasi-feudal conditions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
  2. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .