Lakshadweep
Population
- Population
- 64,473India 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 78.07%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 91.85%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 95.56%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 87.95%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 7.61 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 946 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 911 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.25%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 94.80%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.57India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 29.09%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 10.96%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 57.61%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 70.91%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.
Lakshadweep in context
With 64,473 people at the 2011 Census, Lakshadweep was the 627th most populous of India's 640 districts and the most populous of Lakshadweep's 1. That is 100.0% of everyone living in Lakshadweep at the time.
Literacy stood at 91.85%, 18.9 points above the national 72.98% — level with the Lakshadweep average. That ranked it 17th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 7.6 points, 8.6 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 946 women per 1,000 men (level with the Lakshadweep figure of 946).
Lakshadweep contained 6 towns, all of them census towns: urban by the census's test, but without a municipal body. The largest was Kavaratti (CT), with 11,210 people. That put 78.1% of the district in urban areas, level with the Lakshadweep share of 78.1%.
Towns in Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep has 6 census towns. The largest are listed below.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kavaratti (CT) | 11,210 | 91.59% | 817 / 1000 |
| Andrott (CT) | 11,191 | 90.61% | 1035 / 1000 |
| Minicoy (CT) | 10,447 | 92.85% | 947 / 1000 |
| Amini (CT) | 7,661 | 89.12% | 1001 / 1000 |
| Kadmat (CT) | 5,404 | 95.04% | 1009 / 1000 |
| Kalpeni (CT) | 4,419 | 94.78% | 901 / 1000 |