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Odisha districts

Odisha

Malkangiri

6,13,192
people at the 2011 Census · 3.04 L male, 3.10 L female

Population

Population
6.13 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
8.08%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
48.54%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
59.07%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
38.28%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
20.79 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1020 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
992 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
17.79%India 13.59%
SC %
22.55%India 16.63%
ST %
57.83%India 8.63%
Household
4.46India 4.85

Work

Workers
50.66%India 39.80%
Female Work
45.28%India 25.52%
Main Workers
57.63%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
49.34%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.

Malkangiri in context

With 6,13,192 people at the 2011 Census, Malkangiri was the 521st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 24th most populous of Odisha's 30. That is 1.5% of everyone living in Odisha at the time.

Literacy stood at 48.54%, 24.4 points below the national 72.98% — 24.3 points below the Odisha average. That ranked it 634th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 20.8 points, 4.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 1020 women per 1,000 men (41 above the Odisha figure of 979) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 992, 74 above the national 918.

50.7% of the population were recorded as workers, 8.9 points above the Odisha rate. Female work participation was 45.3%, 18.1 points above the state figure.

Malkangiri contained 3 towns — 2 with a municipal body of some kind, and 1 classed as census towns, meaning they met the census's urban test without having one. The largest was Malkangiri (NAC), with 31,007 people. That put 8.1% of the district in urban areas, 8.6 points below the Odisha share of 16.7%.

Towns in Malkangiri

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

Largest towns in Malkangiri by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Malkangiri (NAC)31,00776.47%896 / 1000
Balimela (NAC)11,79671.73%958 / 1000
Chitrakonda (CT)6,72570.44%1012 / 1000