Pakur (District)
Pakur District | |
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State | Jharkhand |
Administrative headquarters : | Pakur |
Area : | 1811 km² |
Residents : | 900,422 (2011) |
Population density : | 497 inhabitants / km² |
Website : | www.pakur.gov.in |
Pakur is a district in the Indian state of Jharkhand .
The area is 1811 km². The administrative seat is the city of the same name Pakur .
history
Before the district was founded in 1994, it was part of the Sahibganj District .
population
Population statistics have been available since 1991:
year | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
Residents | 564.253 | 701.664 | 900,422 |
The population was 900,422 (2011). The population growth rate in the period from 2001 to 2011 was 28.33% and was therefore very high. Pakur has a gender ratio of 989 women per 1000 men and thus a common surplus of men for India. In 2011 the district had a literacy rate of 48.82%, an increase of almost 18 percentage points compared to 2001. However, literacy is still well below the national average and is one of the lowest in the entire country. Almost 45.6% of the population are Hindus , approx. 35.9% are Muslims , approx. 8.4% are Christians and approx. 10.1% stated no religious affiliation or practiced other religions. The district has a high proportion of Adivasi and tribal populations . 19.7% of the population are children under 6 years of age.
Almost 7.5% of the population live in cities.
economy
Most of the inhabitants live from agriculture . Shale and coal are also mined in the district .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pakur District - Population 1991–2011
- ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
- ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .