Ratlam

With 14,55,069 people at the 2011 Census, Ratlam was the 341st most populous of India's 640 districts and the 22nd most populous of Madhya Pradesh's 50. That is 2.0% of everyone living in Madhya Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 66.78%, 6.2 points below the national 72.98% — 2.5 points below the Madhya Pradesh average. That ranked it 452nd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 21.8 points, 5.5 points above the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 971 women per 1,000 men (40 above the Madhya Pradesh figure of 931). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 939, 21 above the national 918.

47.5% of the population were recorded as workers, 4.0 points above the Madhya Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 39.0%, 6.4 points above the state figure.

Ratlam contained 10 towns — 9 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 Ratlam (M Corp.), with 2,64,914 people. That put 29.9% of the district in urban areas, 2.3 points above the Madhya Pradesh share of 27.6%.