Ranking lists of the Indian states

This article sorts Indian states and union territories according to various geographic, demographic, economic, and social indicators. The first three lists show the administrative status from February 2020 with the union territories Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh as well as Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, the others the status from before November 2019 with the now dissolved state of Jammu and Kashmir, from which Ladakh was separated , and the separate union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, which were merged in January 2020.

geography

States of India (with capitals)

surface

Indian states and union territories by area. Union territories without a ranking.

rank	State	Area in km²	Percentage
1	Rajasthan	342,239	10.41%
2	Madhya Pradesh	308.352	9.37%
3	Maharashtra	307.713	9.36%
4th	Uttar Pradesh	240.928	7.33%
5	Gujarat	196.244	5.96%
6th	Karnataka	191.791	5.83%
7th	Andhra Pradesh	162,968	4.87%
8th	Odisha	155,707	4.73%
9	Chhattisgarh	135.191	4.11%
10	Tamil Nadu	130.058	3.95%
11	Telangana	112,077	3.49%
12	Bihar	94.165	2.86%
13	West Bengal	88,752	2.70%
14th	Arunachal Pradesh	83,743	2.54%
15th	Jharkhand	79.714	2.42%
16	Assam	78,438	2.38%
-	Ladakh *	59,146	1.80%
17th	Himachal Pradesh	55,673	1.70%
18th	Uttarakhand	53,483	1.62%
19th	Punjab	50,362	1.53%
20th	Haryana	44,212	1.34%
-	Jammu and Kashmir *	42,241	1.28%
21st	Kerala	38,863	1.18%
22nd	Meghalaya	22,429	0.68%
23	Manipur	22,327	0.68%
24	Mizoram	21,081	0.64%
25th	Nagaland	16,579	0.50%
26th	Tripura	10,486	0.31%
-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	8,249	0.25%
27	Sikkim	7.096	0.21%
28	Goa	3,702	0.11%
-	Delhi	1,483	0.04%
-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	603	0.02%
-	Pondicherry	492	0.01%
-	Chandigarh	114	0.003%
-	Lakshadweep	32	0.001%
	India India	3,287,263	100%

* Part controlled by India

Capital and largest city

Indian states and Union territories according to their capital and largest city according to the 2011 census.

State	Capital	Biggest town
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair	Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh	Amaravati	Visakhapatnam
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Itanagar
Assam	Dispur	Guwahati
Bihar	Patna	Patna
Chandigarh	Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Raipur
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Daman	Silvassa
Delhi	Delhi	Delhi
Goa	Panaji	Mormugao
Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Ahmedabad
Haryana	Chandigarh	Faridabad
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Shimla
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar / Jammu	Srinagar
Jharkhand	Ranchi	Ranchi
Karnataka	Bangalore	Bangalore
Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Thiruvananthapuram
Ladakh	Leh	Leh
Lakshadweep	Kavaratti	Kavaratti
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Indore
Maharashtra	Mumbai	Mumbai
Manipur	Imphal	Imphal
Meghalaya	Shillong	Shillong
Mizoram	Aizawl	Aizawl
Nagaland	Kohima	Dimapur
Odisha	Bhubaneswar	Bhubaneswar
Pondicherry	Pondicherry	Pondicherry
Punjab	Chandigarh	Ludhiana
Rajasthan	Jaipur	Jaipur
Sikkim	Gangtok	Gangtok
Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Chennai
Telangana	Hyderabad	Hyderabad
Tripura	Agartala	Agartala
Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Dehradun
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Lucknow
West Bengal	Calcutta	Calcutta
India India	New Delhi	Mumbai

Demographics

population

Indian states and union territories by population (2011 census).

rank	State	population	Percentage
1	Uttar Pradesh	199.812.341	16.49%
2	Maharashtra	112.372.972	9.28%
3	Bihar	103,804,637	8.58%
4th	West Bengal	91,347,736	7.55%
5	Madhya Pradesh	72,597,565	6.00%
6th	Tamil Nadu	72.138.958	5.96%
7th	Rajasthan	68,621,012	5.67%
8th	Karnataka	61.130.704	5.05%
9	Gujarat	60,383,628	5.00%
10	Andhra Pradesh	49.386.799	4.08%
11	Odisha	41,947,358	3.47%
12	Telangana	35.286.757	2.97%
13	Kerala	33,387,677	2.76%
14th	Jharkhand	32,988,134	2.72%
15th	Assam	31.169.272	2.58%
16	Punjab	27,704,236	2.30%
17th	Chhattisgarh	25,540,196	2.11%
18th	Haryana	25,353,081	2.09%
-	Delhi	16,787,941	1.38%
19th	Jammu and Kashmir	12,548,926	1.04%
20th	Uttarakhand	10,116,752	0.84%
21st	Himachal Pradesh	6,864,602	0.57%
22nd	Tripura	3,671,032	0.30%
23	Meghalaya	2,964,007	0.24%
24	Manipur	2,721,756	0.22%
25th	Nagaland	1,980,602	0.16%
26th	Goa	1,457,723	0.12%
27	Arunachal Pradesh	1,382,611	0.11%
-	Pondicherry	1,244,464	0.10%
28	Mizoram	1,091,014	0.09%
-	Chandigarh	1,055,450	0.09%
29	Sikkim	607,688	0.05%
-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	585.764	0.05%
-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	379,944	0.03%
-	Lakshadweep	64,429	0.01%
	India India	1.210.193.422	100%

Historical population development

Population development of the Indian states and Union territories (as they were on October 29, 2019, before Jammu and Kashmir were split up) since 1951. The population of Telangana state belonged to Andhra Pradesh until 2001 .

State	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Uttar Pradesh	60.274.800	70.144.160	83.849.775	105.113.300	132,062,800	166.053.600	199.812.341
Maharashtra	32.002.500	39,554,900	50.412.240	62,782,820	78.937.190	96.752.500	112.372.972
Bihar	29,085,900	34,841,490	42,126,800	52,303,000	64,531,200	82.879.910	103,804,637
West Bengal	26,300,670	34,926,000	44.312.017	54,580,650	68,077,970	80.221.300	91,347,736
Madhya Pradesh	18,615,700	23,218,950	30.017.180	38.169.500	48,566,800	60.385.090	72,597,565
Tamil Nadu	30.119.680	33.687.100	41.199.170	48,408,080	55.859.300	62.111.390	72.138.958
Rajasthan	15.971.130	20.156.540	25,765,810	34,361,860	44.005.990	56.473.300	68,621,012
Karnataka	19,402,500	23,587,910	29,299,015	37.135.710	44,977,200	52.734.986	61.130.704
Gujarat	16,263,700	20.633.305	26,697,488	34,085,800	41,309,580	50.597.200	60,383,628
Andhra Pradesh	31,115,000	35,983,480	43.502.710	53,551,030	66.508.170	75,728,400	49.386.799
Odisha	14,646,100	17,549,500	21,944,625	26,370,270	31,659,740	36,707,900	41,947,358
Telangana	...	...	...	...	...	...	35.286.757
Kerala	13,549,000	16,904,560	21,347,300	25,453,680	29,098,523	31,839,000	33,387,677
Jharkhand	9,697,300	11,606,504	14,227,493	17,612,000	21,844,550	26,946,070	32,988,134
Assam	8,029,100	10,837,700	14.625.157	18,041,250	22,414,320	26,638,600	31.169.272
Punjab	9,160,990	11.135.404	13,551,069	16,788,920	20,281,971	24.289.130	27,704,236
Chhattisgarh	7,457,700	9,154,330	11,637,800	14.010.110	17,615,600	20,834,530	25,540,196
Haryana	5,674,400	7,591,190	10,036,430	12,922,122	16,464,600	21,083,900	25,353,081
Delhi	1,744,500	2,659,990	4,066,400	6.220.973	9,421,311	13,851,503	16,787,941
Jammu and Kashmir	3,254,650	3,561,100	4,616,632	5,987,389	7,718,700	10,070,300	12,548,926
Uttarakhand	2,946,900	3,611,200	4,493,800	5,726,550	7,051,600	8,489,100	10,116,752
Himachal Pradesh	2,386,940	2,812,300	3,460,434	4,280,818	5,170,877	6,077,453	6,864,602
Tripura	639.984	1,142,282	1,556,342	2,053,058	2,757,205	3,191,880	3,671,032
Meghalaya	606,300	769.990	1,001,699	1,335,819	1,774,778	2,306,540	2,964,007
Manipur	578.060	780.340	1,073,509	1,421,290	1,837,900	2,294,480	2,721,756
Nagaland	213,700	369,309	516.110	775,570	1,210,492	1,990,275	1,980,602
Goa	547,000	590.875	795.997	1,008,373	1,170,115	1,348,900	1,457,723
Arunachal Pradesh	...	337,300	468.885	632.502	865,900	1,098,328	1,382,611
Pondicherry	317,407	369.355	472.836	604.281	808.117	974.820	1,244,464
Mizoram	196.970	266.200	332.190	494,440	690.963	889.690	1,091,014
Chandigarh	24,948	120,480	257.251	451.610	642.015	900.635	1,055,450
Sikkim	138.093	162,863	210.205	316.840	406,000	541.902	607,688
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	31,480	64.160	115,874	189,496	281,990	356,650	379,944
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	42,846	58.020	74,880	104,300	138,290	220.963	342.853
Daman and Diu	49,482	37,587	63,000	79,842	102.110	158.080	242,911
Lakshadweep	21,000	24,370	32,900	40,250	52,820	61,300	64,429
India India	361.088.400	439.235.720	548.160.050	683.329.900	846.421.830	1,028,737,690	1.210.193.422

Population density

Population density of the Indian states

Indian states and union territories according to their population per square kilometer. The data are results of the 2011 census.

rank	State	Inhabitants per km²
-	Delhi	11,320 inhabitants / km²
-	Chandigarh	9,258 inhabitants / km²
-	Pondicherry	2,547 inhabitants / km²
-	Daman and Diu	2.191 inhabitants / km²
-	Lakshadweep	2.149 inhabitants / km²
1	Bihar	1,106 inhabitants / km²
2	West Bengal	1,028 inhabitants / km²
3	\| Kerala	860 inhabitants / km²
4th	Uttar Pradesh	829 inhabitants / km²
-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	700 inhabitants / km²
5	Haryana	573 inhabitants / km²
6th	Tamil Nadu	555 inhabitants / km²
7th	Punjab	551 inhabitants / km²
8th	Jharkhand	414 inhabitants / km²
9	Assam	398 inhabitants / km²
10	Goa	394 inhabitants / km²
11	Maharashtra	365 inhabitants / km²
12	Tripura	350 inhabitants / km²
13	Karnataka	319 inhabitants / km²
14th	Andhra Pradesh	310 people / km²
14th	Telangana	310 people / km²
16	Gujarat	308 inhabitants / km²
17th	Odisha	270 inhabitants / km²
18th	Madhya Pradesh	236 inhabitants / km²
19th	Rajasthan	200 inhabitants / km²
20th	Chhattisgarh	189 inhabitants / km²
20th	Uttarakhand	189 inhabitants / km²
22nd	Meghalaya	132 people / km²
23	Jammu and Kashmir	124 inhabitants / km²
24	Himachal Pradesh	123 inhabitants / km²
25th	Nagaland	119 inhabitants / km²
26th	Manipur	115 people / km²
27	Sikkim	86 people / km²
28	Mizoram	52 inhabitants / km²
-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	46 inhabitants / km²
29	Arunachal Pradesh	17 people / km²
	India India	382 inhabitants / km²

Gender ratio

Indian states and union territories according to their gender ratio (2011 and 2001 censuses). The number of women per 1,000 men is given.

rank	State	Gender ratio
		2011 census		2001 census
		total	Age 0-6	total	Age 0-6
1	Kerala	1,084	964	1,058	960
-	Pondicherry	1,037	967	1,001	967
2	Tamil Nadu	996	943	987	942
3	Andhra Pradesh (with Telangana )	993	939	978	961
4th	Chhattisgarh	991	969	989	975
5	Meghalaya	989	970	972	973
6th	Manipur	985	930	974	957
7th	Odisha	979	941	972	953
8th	Mizoram	976	970	935	964
9	Goa	973	942	961	938
10	Karnataka	973	948	965	946
11	Himachal Pradesh	972	909	968	896
12	Uttarakhand	963	890	962	908
13	Tripura	960	957	948	966
14th	Assam	958	962	935	965
15th	West Bengal	950	956	934	960
16	Jharkhand	948	948	941	965
-	Lakshadweep	946	911	948	959
17th	Arunachal Pradesh	938	972	893	964
18th	Nagaland	931	943	900	964
19th	Madhya Pradesh	931	918	919	932
20th	Maharashtra	929	894	922	913
21st	Rajasthan	928	888	921	909
22nd	Gujarat	919	890	920	883
23	Bihar	918	935	919	942
24	Uttar Pradesh	912	902	898	916
25th	Punjab	895	846	876	798
26th	Sikkim	890	957	875	963
27	Jammu and Kashmir	889	862	892	941
28	Haryana	879	834	861	819
-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	876	968	846	957
-	Delhi	868	871	821	868
-	Chandigarh	818	880	777	845
-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	774	926	812	979
-	Daman and Diu	618	904	710	926
	India India	943	919	933	927

Fertility rate

Indian states by fertility rate (2017)

Indian states and union territories according to their fertility rate .

rank	State	Fertility rate per woman
rank	State	2016	2013	2009
01	Bihar	3.3	3.4	3.9
02	Uttar Pradesh	3.1	3.1	3.7
03	Meghalaya	2.9	2.7	3.0
04th	Madhya Pradesh	2.8	2.9	3.3
05	Rajasthan	2.7	2.9	3.3
06th	Jharkhand	2.6	2.7	3.2
07th	Chhattisgarh	2.5	2.6	3.0
08th	Nagaland	2.4	2.1	2.0
09	Assam	2.3	2.3	2.6
0-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	2.3	2.7	3.0
09	Haryana	2.3	2.2	2.5
11	Gujarat	2.2	2.3	2.5
12	Odisha	2.0	2.1	2.4
13	Uttarakhand	1.9	1.9	2.2
14th	Karnataka	1.8	1.9	2.0
14th	Kerala	1.8	1.8	1.7
14th	Maharashtra	1.8	1.8	1.9
17th	Andhra Pradesh	1.7	1.8	1.9
0-	Daman and Diu	1.7	1.9	2.0
17th	Himachal Pradesh	1.7	1.7	1.9
17th	Jammu and Kashmir	1.7	1.9	2.2
0-	Pondicherry	1.7	1.7	1.8
17th	Punjab	1.7	1.7	1.9
17th	Telangana	1.7	...	...
0-	Delhi	1.6	1.7	1.9
0-	Chandigarh	1.6	1.5	1.7
22nd	West Bengal	1.6	1.6	1.9
22nd	Tamil Nadu	1.6	1.8	1.8
0-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	1.5	0.7	0.8
24	Goa	1.5	1.4	1.5
0-	Lakshadweep	1.5	1.6	1.7
25th	Manipur	1.4	1.5	1.7
26th	Sikkim	1.2	1.5	1.8
...	Mizoram	...	1.5	1.8
...	Tripura	...	1.3	1.5
	India India	2.2	2.3	2.6

Life expectancy

Indian States by Life Expectancy (2010-2016)

Indian states and Union territories according to their average life expectancy at birth. Data is not available for all states and union territories.

rank	Life expectancy 2010–2014
rank	State	total	Men	Women
01	Kerala	74.9	72.0	77.8
0-	Delhi	73.2	72.0	74.7
02	Jammu and Kashmir	72.6	70.9	74.9
03	Uttarakhand	71.7	69.1	74.5
04th	Himachal Pradesh	71.6	69.3	74.1
05	Maharashtra	71.6	69.9	73.6
06th	Punjab	71.6	69.7	73.8
07th	Tamil Nadu	70.6	68.6	72.7
08th	West Bengal	70.2	68.9	71.6
09	Karnataka	68.8	66.9	70.8
10	Gujarat	68.7	66.6	71.0
11	Haryana	68.6	66.3	71.3
12	Andhra Pradesh	68.5	66.3	70.8
13	Bihar	68.1	67.8	68.4
14th	Rajasthan	67.7	65.5	70.2
15th	Jharkhand	66.6	66.2	66.9
16	Odisha	65.8	64.7	67.1
17th	Chhattisgarh	64.8	63.3	66.3
18th	Madhya Pradesh	64.2	62.5	66.0
19th	Uttar Pradesh	64.1	62.9	65.4
20th	Assam	63.9	62.7	65.5
	India India	67.9	66.4	69.6

Literacy

Indian states by literacy rate (2011)

Indian states and union territories according to their literacy rate (2011 census).

rank	State	Literacy rate 2011
rank	State	total	Men	Women
1	Kerala	94.00%	96.11%	92.07%
-	Lakshadweep	91.85%	95.56%	87.95%
2	Mizoram	91.33%	93.35%	89.27%
3	Goa	88.70%	92.65%	84.66%
4th	Tripura	87.22%	91.53%	82.73%
-	Daman and Diu	87.10%	91.54%	79.55%
-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	86.63%	90.27%	82.43%
-	Delhi	86.21%	90.94%	80.76%
-	Chandigarh	86.05%	89.99%	81.19%
-	Pondicherry	85.85%	91.26%	80.67%
5	Himachal Pradesh	82.80%	89.53%	75.93%
6th	Maharashtra	82.34%	88.38%	75.87%
7th	Sikkim	81.42%	86.55%	75.61%
8th	Tamil Nadu	80.09%	86.77%	73.44%
9	Nagaland	79.55%	82.75%	76.11%
10	Uttarakhand	78.82%	87.40%	70.01%
11	Gujarat	78.03%	85.75%	69.68%
12	Manipur	76.94%	83.58%	70.26%
13	West Bengal	76.26%	81.69%	70.54%
-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	76.24%	85.17%	64.32%
14th	Punjab	75.84%	80.44%	70.73%
15th	Haryana	75.55%	84.06%	65.94%
16	Karnataka	75.36%	82.47%	68.08%
17th	Meghalaya	74.43%	75.95%	72.89%
18th	Odisha	72.87%	81.59%	64.01%
19th	Assam	72.19%	77.85%	66.27%
20th	Chhattisgarh	70.28%	80.27%	60.24%
21st	Madhya Pradesh	69.32%	78.73%	59.24%
22nd	Uttar Pradesh	67.68%	77.28%	57.18%
23	Jammu and Kashmir	67.16%	76.75%	56.43%
24	Andhra Pradesh (with Telangana )	67.02%	74.88%	59.15%
25th	Jharkhand	66.41%	76.84%	55.42%
26th	Rajasthan	66.11%	79.19%	52.12%
27	Arunachal Pradesh	65.38%	72.55%	57.70%
28	Bihar	61.80%	71.20%	51.50%
	India India	74.04%	82.14%	65.46%

urbanization

Indian states and union territories by proportion of urban population (2011 census).

rank	State	Population in%
rank	State	city	country
0-	Delhi	97.50%	02.50%
0-	Chandigarh	97.25%	02.75%
0-	Lakshadweep	78.07%	21.93%
0-	Daman and Diu	75.17%	24.83%
0-	Pondicherry	68.33%	31.67%
01	Goa	62.17%	37.83%
02	Mizoram	52.11%	47.89%
03	Tamil Nadu	48.40%	51.60%
04th	Kerala	47.70%	52.30%
0-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	46.72%	53.28%
05	Maharashtra	45.22%	54.78%
06th	Gujarat	42.60%	57.40%
07th	Telangana	38.88%	61.12%
08th	Karnataka	38.67%	61.33%
0-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	37.70%	62.30%
09	Punjab	37.48%	62.52%
10	Haryana	34.88%	65.12%
11	West Bengal	31.87%	68.13%
12	Uttarakhand	30.23%	69.77%
13	Andhra Pradesh	29.47%	70.53%
14th	Manipur	29.21%	70.79%
15th	Nagaland	28.86%	71.14%
16	Madhya Pradesh	27.63%	72.37%
17th	Jammu and Kashmir	27.38%	72.62%
18th	Tripura	26.17%	73.83%
19th	Sikkim	25.15%	74.85%
20th	Rajasthan	24.87%	75.13%
21st	Jharkhand	24.05%	75.95%
22nd	Chhattisgarh	23.24%	76.76%
23	Arunachal Pradesh	22.94%	77.06%
24	Uttar Pradesh	22.27%	77.73%
25th	Meghalaya	20.07%	79.93%
26th	Odisha	16.69%	83.31%
27	Assam	14.10%	85.90%
28	Bihar	11.29%	88.71%
29	Himachal Pradesh	10.03%	89.97%
	India India	31.14%	68.86%

economy

gross domestic product

Indian states and union territories calculated according to their gross domestic product in Indian rupees and US dollars ( purchasing power parity ).

rank	State	GDP 2016-2017 in billion rupees ₹	GDP PPP in billion US $
1	Maharashtra	22,677.890	1,280.875
2	Tamil Nadu	12,985.120	733,415
3	Uttar Pradesh	12,325,660	696.168
4th	Gujarat	11,581.510	654.138
5	Karnataka	11,323,920	639,588
6th	West Bengal	8,791,670	496,564
7th	Rajasthan	7,592,340	428.825
8th	Andhra Pradesh	6,993,070	394.977
9	Telangana	6,590.730	372.252
10	Madhya Pradesh	6,473,030	365.604
11	Kerala	6,217,000	351.144
-	Delhi	6,168,250	348,390
12	Haryana	5,473,960	309.176
13	Bihar	4,380,300	247,405
14th	Punjab	4,283,400	241,932
15th	Odisha	3,772,010	213,048
16	Chhattisgarh	2,622,630	148.129
17th	Assam	2,543,410	143.655
18th	Jharkhand	2,355,600	133,047
19th	Uttarakhand	1,956.060	110.481
20th	Jammu and Kashmir	1,268,460	71.644
21st	Himachal Pradesh	1,260,200	71.178
22nd	Goa	626,610	35,392
23	Tripura	343.680	19.635
-	Chandigarh	318.230	17.974
-	Pondicherry	292.790	16,537
24	Meghalaya	272.280	15.379
25th	Nagaland	214.870	12,136
26th	Manipur	210.650	11,898
27	Arunachal Pradesh	202.590	11,443
28	Sikkim	200,200	11.308
29	Mizoram	176.130	9,948
-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	66,490	3,755
	India India	152,510.280	8,613,967

Gross domestic product per capita

Indian states by GDP per capita (in U.S. dollars)

Indian states and union territories calculated according to their gross domestic product per capita in Indian rupees and US dollars (purchasing power parity).

rank	State	GDP / capita in ₹ rupees	GDP PPP / capita in US $	year
1	Goa	267,329	15,273	2015-2016
-	Delhi	249,555	14,098	2016-2017
-	Chandigarh	206,557	11,667	2016-2017
2	Sikkim	205.112	11,585	2016-2017
3	Haryana	143.211	8,089	2016-2017
-	Pondicherry	137.088	7,743	2016-2017
4th	Uttarakhand	133,246	7,526	2016-2017
5	Gujarat	132,773	7,499	2016-2017
6th	Maharashtra	131.139	7,407	2016-2017
7th	Kerala	128,347	7,249	2016-2017
8th	Himachal Pradesh	121,843	6,882	2016-2017
9	Karnataka	120,496	6,806	2016-2017
10	Tamil Nadu	118.915	6,716	2016-2017
11	Telangana	118,684	6.703	2016-2017
-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	107,873	6.163	2015-2016
12	Punjab	103,726	5,859	2016-2017
13	Arunachal Pradesh	101.278	5,720	2016-2017
14th	Andhra Pradesh	95,566	5,398	2016-2017
15th	West Bengal	95,562	5,288	2017-2018
16	Mizoram	91,985	5,196	2015-2016
17th	Rajasthan	72,072	4,071	2016-2017
18th	Chhattisgarh	71.214	4.022	2016-2017
19th	Tripura	64.173	3,666	2015-2016
20th	Odisha	63,674	3,596	2016-2017
21st	Meghalaya	61,670	3,483	2016-2017
22nd	Nagaland	61,363	3,506	2015-2016
23	Jammu and Kashmir	60.171	3,438	2015-2016
24	Jharkhand	54,201	3,061	2016-2017
25th	Madhya Pradesh	52,406	2,960	2016-2017
26th	Assam	48,465	2,769	2015-2016
27	Manipur	45,652	2,608	2015-2016
28	Uttar Pradesh	38,884	2,196	2016-2017
29	Bihar	26,693	1,508	2016-2017
	India India	126,349	6,992	2017-2018

Employment and unemployment

The following table lists Indian states and Union territories according to the unemployment rate and the employment rate (as of April 2018):

rank	State	Employment rate (in%)			Unemployment rate (in%)
rank	State	total	Men	Women	total	Men	Women
1	Tripura	58.00%	83.38%	32.47%	23.42%	11.82%	53.41%
2	Meghalaya	57.87%	76.58%	41.28%	5.84%	2.97%	10.57%
3	Telangana	50.75%	74.26%	25.97%	0.92%	1.14%	0.25%
4th	Tamil Nadu	48.65%	71.76%	24.96%	2.03%	1.47%	3.69%
5	Goa	47.50%	69.49%	26.03%	3.88%	1.55%	9.96%
6th	Assam	47.02%	79.13%	13.60%	6.60%	4.08%	21.89%
7th	West Bengal	46.36%	77.95%	13.58%	6.63%	5.09%	15.80%
8th	Maharashtra	45.89%	69.42%	20.24%	3.69%	3.18%	5.59%
9	Gujarat	45.41%	74.98%	12.57%	4.77%	3.71%	11.78%
10	Karnataka	44.61%	74.14%	11.49%	2.13%	1.47%	6.89%
11	Himachal Pradesh	44.53%	75.27%	11.07%	15.36%	10.26%	53.13%
12	Andhra Pradesh	43.29%	72.60%	12.89%	4.23%	3.85%	6.49%
13	Punjab	43.20%	74.75%	5.42%	7.28%	5.45%	37.51%
14th	Odisha	42.93%	75.36%	8.12%	6.61%	5.35%	19.15%
15th	Haryana	42.00%	70.02%	7.28%	16.52%	13.62%	51.01%
16	Jharkhand	41.20%	73.93%	3.29%	10.06%	8.93%	39.38%
-	Pondicherry	41.14%	66.45%	16.35%	1.74%	0.89%	5.10%
17th	Chhattisgarh	40.79%	70.09%	10.14%	3.21%	2.63%	7.40%
18th	Madhya Pradesh	40.10%	69.47%	4.52%	4.50%	4.02%	13.58%
-	Delhi	39.59%	65.98%	9.32%	9.20%	6.16%	33.86%
19th	Jammu and Kashmir	39.40%	68.05%	7.33%	11.12%	7.29%	50.87%
20th	Bihar	39.34%	71.39%	1.88%	7.77%	7.26%	30.25%
21st	Rajasthan	38.86%	68.45%	2.78%	7.76%	6.79%	36.64%
22nd	Uttar Pradesh	38.58%	69.10%	4.13%	5.87%	4.73%	27.45%
-	Chandigarh	36.13%	61.77%	6.68%	10.32%	7.29%	42.50%
23	Kerala	35.59%	63.57%	8.46%	6.81%	2.07%	41.32%
24	Uttarakhand	34.83%	65.04%	3.30%	1.23%	1.29%	0.13%
	India India	42.70%	71.68%	10.65%	5.67%	4.61%	13.57%

Poverty rate

Indian states and Union territories according to their poverty rate (as of 2011/12).

rank	State	Poverty rate in%	Number of poor people in 1000
1	Chhattisgarh	39.93%	10,411
-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	39.31%	143
2	Jharkhand	36.96%	12,433
3	Manipur	36.89%	1,022
4th	Arunachal Pradesh	34.67%	491
5	Bihar	33.74%	35,815
6th	Odisha	32.59%	13,853
7th	Assam	31.98%	10.127
8th	Madhya Pradesh	31.65%	23,406
9	Uttar Pradesh	29.43%	59,819
-	Chandigarh	21.81%	235
10	Karnataka	20.91%	12,976
11	Mizoram	20.40%	227
12	West Bengal	19.98%	18,498
13	Nagaland	18.88%	376
14th	Maharashtra	17.35%	19,792
15th	Gujarat	16.63%	10,223
16	Rajasthan	14.71%	10,292
17th	Tripura	14.05%	524
18th	Meghalaya	11.87%	361
19th	Tamil Nadu	11.28%	8,263
20th	Uttarakhand	11.26%	1,160
21st	Haryana	11.16%	2,883
22nd	Jammu and Kashmir	10.35%	1,327
-	Delhi	9.91%	1,696
-	Daman and Diu	9.86%	26th
-	Pondicherry	9.69%	124
23	Andhra Pradesh (with Telangana )	9.20%	7,878
24	Punjab	8.26%	2,318
25th	Sikkim	8.19%	51
26th	Himachal Pradesh	8.06%	559
27	Kerala	7.05%	2,395
28	Goa	5.09%	75
-	Lakshadweep	2.77%	2
-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	1.00%	4th
	India India	21.92%	269,783

electrification

Indian states and union territories by proportion of the population with access to electricity. The data are results of the 2011 census.

rank	State	Share with access to electricity (in%)
0-	Lakshadweep	99.7%
0-	Daman and Diu	99.1%
0-	Delhi	99.1%
0-	Chandigarh	98.4%
0-	Pondicherry	97.7%
01	Goa	96.9%
02	Himachal Pradesh	96.8%
03	Punjab	96.6%
04th	Tamil Nadu	93.4%
05	Sikkim	92.5%
06th	Andhra Pradesh (with Telangana )	92.2%
07th	Haryana	90.5%
08th	Kerala	90.4%
09	Gujarat	90.0%
10	Karnataka	89.2%
0-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	86.1%
0-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	85.2%
11	Jammu and Kashmir	85.1%
12	Mizoram	84.2%
13	Maharashtra	83.9%
14th	Nagaland	81.6%
15th	Uttarakhand	77.0%
16	Chhattisgarh	75.3%
17th	Madhya Pradesh	70.0%
18th	Tripura	68.4%
19th	Manipur	68.3%
20th	Rajasthan	67.0%
21st	Arunachal Pradesh	65.7%
22nd	Meghalaya	60.9%
23	West Bengal	54.5%
24	Jharkhand	45.8%
25th	Odisha	43.0%
26th	Assam	37.0%
27	Uttar Pradesh	36.8%
28	Bihar	16.4%
	India India	67.2%

Human Development Index

HDI values in India (2006)

All states of India and 7 Union territories of India according to the Human Development Index from 1990 to 2017.

rank	State	HDI 1990	HDI 2000	HDI 2010	HDI 2017	Increase 1990-2017
01	Kerala	0.555	0.608	0.731	0.784	0.229
0-	Chandigarh	0.635	0.641	0.658	0.774	0.139
02	Goa	0.562	0.620	0.750	0.764	0.202
0-	Lakshadweep	0.696	0.709	0.728	0.749	0.053
0-	Delhi	0.581	0.672	0.717	0.744	0.163
0-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	0.691	0.703	0.721	0.742	0.051
0-	Pondicherry	0.724	0.736	0.755	0.739	0.015
03	Punjab	0.500	0.581	0.664	0.721	0.221
04th	Himachal Pradesh	0.481	0.595	0.675	0.720	0.239
05	Sikkim	0.540	0.549	0.641	0.716	0.176
06th	Tamil Nadu	0.470	0.545	0.655	0.708	0.238
0-	Daman and Diu	0.653	0.668	0.686	0.706	0.053
07th	Haryana	0.464	0.549	0.640	0.704	0.240
08th	Mizoram	0.537	0.573	0.694	0.697	0.160
09	Manipur	0.500	0.562	0.690	0.695	0.195
10	Maharashtra	0.497	0.559	0.650	0.695	0.198
11	Jammu and Kashmir	0.497	0.529	0.647	0.684	0.187
12	Karnataka	0.443	0.517	0.611	0.682	0.239
13	Uttarakhand	0.623	0.626	0.642	0.677	0.054
14th	Nagaland	0.545	0.523	0.666	0.676	0.131
15th	Gujarat	0.469	0.526	0.608	0.667	0.198
16	Telangana	0.621	0.628	0.643	0.664	0.043
0-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	0.673	0.685	0.703	0.661	−0.012
17th	Arunachal Pradesh	0.438	0.501	0.639	0.658	0.210
18th	Tripura	0.442	0.531	0.613	0.655	0.213
19th	Meghalaya	0.461	0.468	0.621	0.650	0.189
20th	Andhra Pradesh	0.423	0.474	0.580	0.643	0.220
21st	West Bengal	0.438	0.506	0.576	0.637	0.199
22nd	Rajasthan	0.400	0.461	0.547	0.621	0.221
23	Assam	0.402	0.486	0.566	0.605	0.203
24	Chhattisgarh	0.552	0.555	0.569	0.600	0.048
25th	Odisha	0.392	0.451	0.534	0.597	0.205
26th	Madhya Pradesh	0.400	0.450	0.534	0.594	0.194
27	Jharkhand	0.553	0.557	0.574	0.589	0.036
28	Uttar Pradesh	0.389	0.453	0.530	0.583	0.194
29	Bihar	0.372	0.430	0.512	0.566	0.194
	India India	0.428	0.493	0.581	0.639	0.211

Gender Development Report

States and Union Territories of India according to their Gender Development Index (as of 2006). The smaller the GDI, the more women are disadvantaged compared to men with regard to the quality of life recorded in the HDI.

rank	State	Gender Development Index
01	Kerala	0.836
02	Goa	0.792
0-	Chandigarh	0.765
03	Manipur	0.762
0-	Lakshadweep	0.729
0-	Pondicherry	0.725
04th	Nagaland	0.719
0-	Daman and Diu	0.715
0-	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	0.701
05	Maharashtra	0.699
06th	Mizoram	0.695
07th	Tamil Nadu	0.682
0-	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	0.682
0-	Delhi	0.675
08th	West Bengal	0.668
09	Punjab	0.665
10	Sikkim	0.657
11	Tripura	0.643
12	Himachal Pradesh	0.634
13	Karnataka	0.632
14th	Arunachal Pradesh	0.624
14th	Uttarakhand	0.624
16	Haryana	0.604
17th	Jammu and Kashmir	0.601
18th	Gujarat	0.599
19th	Jharkhand	0.594
20th	Andhra Pradesh (with Telangana )	0.588
21st	Meghalaya	0.562
22nd	Bihar	0.542
23	Rajasthan	0.527
24	Chhattisgarh	0.523
25th	Assam	0.495
26th	Uttar Pradesh	0.490
27	Odisha	0.474
28	Madhya Pradesh	0.461
	India India	0.577

Web links

Reserve Bank of India : Handbook of Statistics on Indian States. May 5, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2019 (English; 129 statistical tables for the Indian states & territories, with download).

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