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Arunachal Pradesh districts

Arunachal Pradesh

Lohit

1,45,726
people at the 2011 Census · 76,221 male, 69,505 female

Population

Population
1.46 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
22.25%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
68.18%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
75.52%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
60.04%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
15.48 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
912 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
966 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
16.40%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
32.53%India 8.63%
Household
4.86India 4.85

Work

Workers
41.82%India 39.80%
Female Work
31.70%India 25.52%
Main Workers
83.28%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
58.18%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.

Lohit in context

With 1,45,726 people at the 2011 Census, Lohit was the 600th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Arunachal Pradesh's 16. That is 10.5% of everyone living in Arunachal Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 68.18%, 4.8 points below the national 72.98% — 2.8 points above the Arunachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 420th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 15.5 points, 0.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 912 women per 1,000 men (26 below the Arunachal Pradesh figure of 938). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 966, 48 above the national 918.

Lohit contained 2 towns. The largest was Tezu (NT), with 18,184 people. That put 22.3% of the district in urban areas, 0.7 points below the Arunachal Pradesh share of 22.9%.

Towns in Lohit

Lohit has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Lohit by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Tezu (NT)18,18483.98%866 / 1000
Namsai (NT)14,24676.61%903 / 1000