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Arunachal Pradesh districts

Arunachal Pradesh

West Siang

1,12,274
people at the 2011 Census · 58,168 male, 54,106 female

Population

Population
1.12 LIndia 121.09 Cr
Urban %
22.24%India 31.14%

Literacy

Literacy
66.46%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
72.81%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
59.63%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
13.18 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
930 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
941 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.23%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
82.64%India 8.63%
Household
5.29India 4.85

Work

Workers
43.80%India 39.80%
Female Work
37.00%India 25.52%
Main Workers
87.44%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
56.20%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.

West Siang in context

With 1,12,274 people at the 2011 Census, West Siang was the 612th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 4th most populous of Arunachal Pradesh's 16. That is 8.1% of everyone living in Arunachal Pradesh at the time.

Literacy stood at 66.46%, 6.5 points below the national 72.98% — 1.1 points above the Arunachal Pradesh average. That ranked it 461st of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 13.2 points, 3.1 points below the national gap of 16.3.

The sex ratio was 930 women per 1,000 men (8 below the Arunachal Pradesh figure of 938). Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 941, 23 above the national 918.

West Siang contained 2 towns. The largest was Aalo (NT), with 20,684 people. That put 22.2% of the district in urban areas, 0.7 points below the Arunachal Pradesh share of 22.9%.

Towns in West Siang

West Siang has 2 census towns. The largest are listed below.

Largest towns in West Siang by 2011 Census population.
TownPopulationLiteracySex ratio
Aalo (NT)20,68484.88%846 / 1000
Basar (NT)4,28487.77%880 / 1000