Kolkata
Population
- Population
- 44.97 LIndia 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 100.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 86.31%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 88.34%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 84.06%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 4.28 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 908 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 933 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 7.55%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 5.38%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.24%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.39India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 39.93%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 17.91%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 87.79%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 60.07%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.
Kolkata in context
With 44,96,694 people at the 2011 Census, Kolkata was the 35th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 10th most populous of West Bengal's 19. That is 4.9% of everyone living in West Bengal at the time.
Literacy stood at 86.31%, 13.3 points above the national 72.98% — 10.0 points above the West Bengal average. That ranked it 54th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 4.3 points, 12.0 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 908 women per 1,000 men (42 below the West Bengal figure of 950). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 933, 15 above the national 918.
Kolkata contained 1 town. The largest was Kolkata (M Corp.), with 44,96,694 people. That put 100.0% of the district in urban areas, 68.1 points above the West Bengal share of 31.9%.
Towns in Kolkata
Kolkata has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kolkata (M Corp.) | 44.97 L | 86.31% | 908 / 1000 |