Jaisalmer
Population
- Population
- 6.70 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 13.29%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 57.22%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 72.04%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 39.71%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 32.33 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 852 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 874 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 19.47%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 14.80%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 6.33%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.72India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 43.13%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 34.50%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 60.71%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 56.87%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.
Jaisalmer in context
With 6,69,919 people at the 2011 Census, Jaisalmer was the 508th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 33rd most populous of Rajasthan's 33. That is 1.0% of everyone living in Rajasthan at the time.
Literacy stood at 57.22%, 15.8 points below the national 72.98% — 8.9 points below the Rajasthan average. That ranked it 592nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 32.3 points, 16.1 points above the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 852 women per 1,000 men (76 below the Rajasthan figure of 928). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 874, 44 below the national 918.
Jaisalmer contained 2 towns. The largest was Jaisalmer (M), with 65,471 people. That put 13.3% of the district in urban areas, 11.6 points below the Rajasthan share of 24.9%.
Towns in Jaisalmer
Jaisalmer has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaisalmer (M) | 65,471 | 78.46% | 797 / 1000 |
| Pokaran (M) | 23,554 | 76.79% | 836 / 1000 |