Lunglei
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.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lunglei (NT) | 57,011 | 98.27% | 934 / 1000 |
| Hnahthial (NT) | 7,187 | 97.24% | 1011 / 1000 |
| Tlabung (NT) | 4,554 | 92.49% | 1009 / 1000 |