Pakur (District)

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Pakur District
District map
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

  1. Pakur District - Population 1991–2011
  2. 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
  3. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .