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Mizoram districts

Mizoram

Kolasib

83,955
people at the 2011 Census · 42,918 male, 41,037 female

Population

Population
83,955India 121.09 Cr
Urban %
55.84%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
93.50%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
94.57%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
92.38%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
2.19 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
956 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
980 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.06%India 13.59%
SC %
0.10%India 16.63%
ST %
87.68%India 8.63%
Household
4.86India 4.85

Work

Workers
43.68%India 39.80%
Female Work
33.97%India 25.52%
Main Workers
80.98%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
56.32%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.

Kolasib in context

With 83,955 people at the 2011 Census, Kolasib was the 620th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 6th most populous of Mizoram's 8. That is 7.7% of everyone living in Mizoram at the time.

Literacy stood at 93.50%, 20.5 points above the national 72.98% — 2.2 points above the Mizoram average. That ranked it 14th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 2.2 points, 14.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 956 women per 1,000 men (20 below the Mizoram figure of 976). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 980, 62 above the national 918.

Kolasib contained 4 towns. The largest was Kolasib (NT), with 24,272 people. That put 55.8% of the district in urban areas, 3.7 points above the Mizoram share of 52.1%.

Towns in Kolasib

Kolasib has 4 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Kolasib by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Kolasib (NT)24,27297.75%1006 / 1000
Vairengte (NT)10,55494.73%868 / 1000
N. Kawnpui (NT)7,73297.35%987 / 1000
Bairabi (NT)4,32090.77%983 / 1000