Dakshin Bastar Dantewada

With 5,33,638 people at the 2011 Census, Dakshin Bastar Dantewada was the 540th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 16th most populous of Chhattisgarh's 18. That is 2.1% of everyone living in Chhattisgarh at the time.

Literacy stood at 42.12%, 30.9 points below the national 72.98% — 28.2 points below the Chhattisgarh average. That ranked it 638th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 19.4 points, 3.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1020 women per 1,000 men (29 above the Chhattisgarh figure of 991) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1005, 87 above the national 918.

53.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.0 points above the Chhattisgarh rate. Female work participation was 49.5%, 9.8 points above the state figure.

Dakshin Bastar Dantewada contained 8 towns. The largest was Bade Bacheli (M), with 21,435 people. That put 18.0% of the district in urban areas, 5.2 points below the Chhattisgarh share of 23.2%.