Barwani

With 13,85,881 people at the 2011 Census, Barwani was the 354th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 24th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.9% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 49.08%, 23.9 points below the national 72.98% — 20.2 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 630th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.3 points, 2.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 982 women per 1,000 men (51 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 948, 30 above the national 918.

47.2% of the population were recorded as workers, 3.7 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 41.9%, 9.3 points above the state figure.

Barwani contained 8 towns — 7 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Sendhwa (M), with 56,485 people. That put 14.7% of the district in urban areas, 12.9 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.