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Arunachal Pradesh districts

Arunachal Pradesh

Upper Siang

35,320
people at the 2011 Census · 18,699 male, 16,621 female

Population

Population
35,320India 121.09 Cr
Urban %
18.52%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
59.99%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
66.45%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
52.63%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
13.82 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
889 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
946 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
14.12%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
80.60%India 8.63%
Household
4.82India 4.85

Work

Workers
49.95%India 39.80%
Female Work
46.18%India 25.52%
Main Workers
82.32%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
50.05%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.

Upper Siang in context

With 35,320 people at the 2011 Census, Upper Siang was the 637th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 14th most populous of Arunachal Pradesh's 16. That is 2.6% of everyone living in Arunachal Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 59.99%, 13.0 points below the national 72.98% — 5.4 points below the Arunachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 563rd of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.8 points, 2.4 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 889 women per 1,000 men (49 below the Arunachal Pradesh figure of 938). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 946, 28 above the national 918.

50.0% of the population were recorded as workers, 7.5 points above the Arunachal Pradesh rate. Female work participation was 46.2%, 10.7 points above the state figure.

Upper Siang contained 1 town. The largest was Yingkiong (NT), with 6,540 people. That put 18.5% of the district in urban areas, 4.4 points below the Arunachal Pradesh share of 22.9%.

Towns in Upper Siang

Upper Siang has one census town.

Largest towns in Upper Siang by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Yingkiong (NT)6,54079.17%944 / 1000