Nicobars
Population
- Population
- 36,842India 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 0.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 78.06%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 83.36%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 71.06%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 12.30 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 777 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 945 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.91%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 0.00%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 64.28%India 8.63%
- Household
- 3.97India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 46.48%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 27.37%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 56.36%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 53.52%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.
Nicobars in context
With 36,842 people at the 2011 Census, Nicobars was the 636th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Andaman and Nicobar Islands's 3. That is 9.7% of everyone living in Andaman and Nicobar Islands at the time.
Literacy stood at 78.06%, 5.1 points above the national 72.98% — 8.6 points below the Andaman and Nicobar Islands average. That ranked it 195th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 12.3 points, 3.9 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 777 women per 1,000 men (99 below the Andaman and Nicobar Islands figure of 876). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 945, 27 above the national 918.
46.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 6.4 points above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands rate. Female work participation was 27.4%, 9.6 points above the state figure.
The census recorded no towns in Nicobars — its population was classified entirely as rural.