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Odisha districts

Odisha

Koraput

13,79,647
people at the 2011 Census · 6.79 L male, 7.01 L female

Population

Population
13.80 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
16.39%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
49.21%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
60.32%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
38.55%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
21.77 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1032 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
979 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.32%India 13.59%
SC %
14.25%India 16.63%
ST %
50.56%India 8.63%
Household
4.09India 4.85

Work

Workers
50.26%India 39.80%
Female Work
44.14%India 25.52%
Main Workers
57.18%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
49.74%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.

Koraput in context

With 13,79,647 people at the 2011 Census, Koraput was the 355th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 15th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 3.3% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.

Literacy stood at 49.21%, 23.8 points below the national 72.98% — 23.7 points below the Odisha average. That ranked it 629th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.8 points, 5.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1032 women per 1,000 men (53 above the Odisha figure of 979) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 979, 61 above the national 918.

50.3% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.5 points above the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 44.1%, 17.0 points above the state figure.

Koraput contained 7 towns — 4 with a municipal body of some kind, and 3 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Jeypur (M), with 84,830 people. That put 16.4% of the district in urban areas, level with the Odisha share of 16.7%.

Towns in Koraput

Koraput has 7 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Koraput by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Jeypur (M)84,83082.38%991 / 1000
Sunabeda (NAC).50,39484.01%937 / 1000
Koraput (NAC)47,46882.04%933 / 1000
Kotpad (NAC)16,32676.24%1055 / 1000
Boriguma (CT)9,78572.76%990 / 1000
Damanjodi (CT)8,86293.23%913 / 1000
Kurumuli (CT)8,50469.91%945 / 1000