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Manipur districts

Manipur

Chandel

1,44,182
people at the 2011 Census · 74,579 male, 69,603 female

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.

Largest towns in Chandel by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Moreh (ST)16,84771.47%943 / 1000