Mokokchung (District)

Mokokchung District
State	Nagaland
Administrative headquarters :	Moching
Area :	1615 km²
Residents :	194,622 (2011)
Population density :	121 people / km²
Website :	www.mokokchung.nic.in

The district capital Mokokchung

Mokokchung is a district in the east of the northeast Indian state of Nagaland .

The area is 1615 km². The administrative seat is the city of the same name Mokokchung .

population

According to the 2011 census, the Mokokchung district has 194,622 inhabitants. With 121 inhabitants per square kilometer, the district is densely populated. The district is rural. Of the 194,622 residents, 138,897 people (71.37%) live in rural areas and 55,725 people in urban communities.

The district of Mokokchung belongs to the areas of India that are almost entirely populated by members of the "tribal population" ( scheduled tribes ). (2011) 178,431 people (91.68 percent of the district's population) were among them. There is not a single Dalit ( scheduled castes ) in the district.

The population consists almost entirely of people who were born in the district. 178,743 people (91.84 percent of residents) were born in the district. A total of 7,938 people were born in other Indian states (including 4,137 people in Assam, 1,821 people in Bihar and 349 people in Uttar Pradesh). Of the 618 foreign-born people, 572 are from Nepal.

Population development

As everywhere in India, the population in the Mokokchung district grew strongly over decades. However, between 2001 and 2011 there was a decrease of around 16 percent (16.14%). In those ten years the population decreased by over 37,000 people. The following table illustrates the development:

Significant places

With the district capital Mokokchung there is only one place with more than 10,000 inhabitants in the district. Tuli , Changtongya and Tsudikong (also called 13th Mile Tuli Paper Mill) are places that are also considered cities (notified towns).

District population by gender

As is common in India, the district always had more male than female residents. Among the youngest residents (under 7 years of age) the proportions are 51.30% male to 48.70% female.

Distribution of the population by gender in the Mokokchung district
	1961 census		1971 census		1981 census		1991 census		2001 census		2011 census
	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of
TOTAL	58,352	100%	82,562	100%	103,925	100%	158.374	100%	232.085	100%	194,622	100%
Men	29,555	50.65%	45.006	54.51%	54,512	52.45%	82,823	52.30%	120,929	52.11%	101.092	51.94%
Women	28,797	49.35%	37,556	45.49%	49,413	47.55%	75,551	47.70%	111.156	47.89%	93,530	48.06%

District population by language

The population of the Mokokchung district is linguistically mixed. The three closely related Naga languages Chungli, Ao and Mongsen make up almost 87% of the district's population. Mongsen (65.40 percent of the population) and Chungli (29.81 percent of the population) dominate Circle Longchem. Ao (78.82 percent of the population) and Mongsen (19.06 percent of the population) dominate the Circle Alongkima. At Circle Tuli, 82.47 percent of the population speak Ao. In the Changtongya Circle, the population mostly speaks Chungli (74.18 percent of the population) or Ao (17.96 percent of the population). The two main languages in the Chuchuyimlang Circle are Chungli (82.75 percent of the population) and Chang (12.24 percent of the population). Mongsen (54.86 percent of the population) and Chungli (41.89 percent of the population) dominate the Kubolong circle. In the Mangkolemba Circle, the population mostly speaks Chungli (51.04 percent of the population) or Ao (22.97 percent of the population). The population in the Circle Merangmen is linguistically very fragmented. In addition to the main languages Mongsen (29.19 percent of the population), Chungli (21.03 percent of the population) and Ao (11.60 percent of the population), there are significant linguistic minorities of immigrant groups (Assami, Bengali and Nepali). This is also the case in Circle Ongpangkong. The main languages are Chungli (36.69 percent of the population), Mongsen (27.14 percent of the population) and Ao (21.07 percent of the population). There are also significant linguistic minorities of immigrant groups (Nepali, Hindi, Assami and Bengali). The most common languages are shown in the following table:

year	Chungli		Ao		Mongsen		Nepali		Chang		Hindi		Assami		Bengali		Phom		Konyak		Total
year	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%
2011	68,397	35.14	53,352	27.41	46,491	23.89	3,307	1.70	2,777	1.43	2,285	1.17	2,252	1.16	2,090	1.07	1,763	0.91	1,117	0.57	194,622	100.00%
Source: 2011 census result

Population of the district by confession

The Tibetan Burmese residents have converted almost entirely to Christianity in the past 100 years. The most important communities within Christianity are the Baptists, Presbyterians (Reformed), and Catholics. The Hindus and Muslims form religious minorities and are mainly immigrants from other regions of India. The following table shows the exact religious composition of the population:

year	Buddhists		Christians		Hindus		Jainas		Muslims		Sikhs		Other		not specified		Total
year	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%
2011	442	0.23	181,847	93.44	9,840	5.06	66	0.03	2,057	1.06	78	0.04	6th	0.00	286	0.15	194,622	100.00%
Source: 2011 census result

education

Thanks to significant efforts, literacy has risen sharply in recent decades. In urban areas, almost everyone can read and write. In rural areas, almost 91 percent can read and write. These are extremely high values for India. What is also very atypical for Indian conditions are the only slight differences between the sexes and the urban / rural population.

Literacy in the Mokokchung District
unit	2011 census
unit	number	proportion of
TOTAL	159,494	91.62%
Men	83,479	92.18%
Women	76.015	91.01%
TOTAL CITY	46,883	93.59%
City men	25.172	93.81%
City women	21,711	93.33%
TOTAL COUNTRY	112,611	90.82%
Country men	58,307	91.50%
Country women	54,304	90.11%
Source: 2011 census result

economy

Agriculture is the dominant form of economy. The main crops grown include rice , corn and millet .

Administrative division

The district was divided into 9 circles at the last census in 2011.

Population in the Circles
	Alongkima		Changtongya		Chuchuyimlang		Kubolong		Longchem		Mangkolemba		Merangmen		Ongpangkong		Tuli
	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of	number	proportion of
TOTAL	11,947	100%	17,372	100%	17,832	100%	12,679	100%	8,617	100%	12,957	100%	6,044	100%	83,797	100%	23,377	100%
Men	5,972	49.99%	9,064	52.18%	9,192	51.55%	6,560	51.74%	4,363	50.63%	6,542	50.49%	3,267	54.05%	43,452	51.85%	12,680	54.24%
Women	5,975	50.01%	8,308	47.82%	8,640	48.45%	6.119	48.26%	4,254	49.37%	6,415	49.51%	2,777	45.95%	40,345	48.15%	10,697	45.76%
city	0	0%	7,532	43.36%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	35,913	42.86%	12,280	52.53%
country	11,947	100%	9,840	56.64%	17,832	100%	12,679	100%	8,617	100%	12,957	100%	6,044	100%	47,884	57.14%	11.097	47.47%

Web links

Commons : Mokokchung - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

[1] Mokokchung District: Census 2011 data

[2] A - 2 DECADAL VARIATION IN POPULATION SINCE 1901

[3] Result of the 2011 census on city population

[4] District Census Handbook for Moching