Chandel
Population
- Population
- 1.44 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 11.68%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 71.11%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 77.78%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 63.96%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 13.82 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 933 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 921 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.92%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.37%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 88.97%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.01India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 52.88%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 48.31%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 70.51%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 47.12%India 60.20%
Population density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract and so are unavailable at district level. See Methodology.
Chandel in context
With 1,44,182 people at the 2011 Census, Chandel was the 601st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 8th most populous of Manipur's 9. That is 5.0% of everyone living in Manipur at the time.
Literacy stood at 71.11%, 1.9 points below the national 72.98% — 5.8 points below the Manipur average. That ranked it 347th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.8 points, 2.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 933 women per 1,000 men (52 below the Manipur figure of 985).
52.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.2 points above the Manipur rate. Female work participation was 48.3%, 8.4 points above the state figure.
Chandel contained 1 town. The largest was Moreh (ST), with 16,847 people. That put 11.7% of the district in urban areas, 17.5 points below the Manipur share of 29.2%.
Towns in Chandel
Chandel has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moreh (ST) | 16,847 | 71.47% | 943 / 1000 |