Raisen

With 13,31,597 people at the 2011 Census, Raisen was the 365th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 27th most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 1.8% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 72.98%, level with the national 72.98% — 3.7 points above the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 298th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 16.6 points, level with the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 901 women per 1,000 men (30 below the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931).

38.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.6 points below the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 23.4%, 9.3 points below the state figure.

Raisen contained 12 towns — 11 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 Mandideep (M), with 59,654 people. That put 22.8% of the district in urban areas, 4.8 points below the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.