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Mizoram districts

Mizoram

Lunglei

1,61,428
people at the 2011 Census · 82,891 male, 78,537 female

Population

Population
1.61 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
42.59%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
88.86%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
92.04%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
85.49%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
6.55 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
947 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
963 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
15.56%India 13.59%
SC %
0.11%India 16.63%
ST %
95.11%India 8.63%
Household
4.88India 4.85

Work

Workers
48.50%India 39.80%
Female Work
40.82%India 25.52%
Main Workers
79.21%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
51.50%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.

Lunglei in context

With 1,61,428 people at the 2011 Census, Lunglei was the 597th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 2nd most populous of Mizoram's 8. That is 14.7% of everyone living in Mizoram at the time.

Literacy stood at 88.86%, 15.9 points above the national 72.98% — 2.5 points below the Mizoram average. That ranked it 30th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 6.5 points, 9.7 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 947 women per 1,000 men (29 below the Mizoram figure of 976). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 963, 45 above the national 918.

48.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.1 points above the Mizoram rate.

Lunglei contained 3 towns. The largest was Lunglei (NT), with 57,011 people. That put 42.6% of the district in urban areas, 9.5 points below the Mizoram share of 52.1%.

Towns in Lunglei

Lunglei has 3 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in Lunglei by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Lunglei (NT)57,01198.27%934 / 1000
Hnahthial (NT)7,18797.24%1011 / 1000
Tlabung (NT)4,55492.49%1009 / 1000