Yanam
Population
- Population
- 55,626India 121.09 Cr
- Urban %
- 100.00%India 31.14%
Literacy
- Literacy
- 79.47%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 82.75%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 76.35%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 6.40 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1038 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 921 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 11.15%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 15.15%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.00%India 8.63%
- Household
- 4.03India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 30.13%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 9.58%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 91.72%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 69.87%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.
Yanam in context
With 55,626 people at the 2011 Census, Yanam was the 629th most populous of India's 640 districts and the 3rd most populous of Puducherry's 4. That is 4.5% of everyone living in Puducherry at the time.
Literacy stood at 79.47%, 6.5 points above the national 72.98% — 6.4 points below the Puducherry average. That ranked it 169th of 640 districts nationally. The gap between male and female literacy was 6.4 points, 9.8 points below the national gap of 16.3.
The sex ratio was 1038 women per 1,000 men (level with the Puducherry figure of 1037) — one of the minority of districts where women outnumbered men.
30.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 5.5 points below the Puducherry rate. Female work participation was 9.6%, 8.0 points below the state figure.
Yanam contained 1 town. The largest was Yanam (M), with 55,626 people. That put 100.0% of the district in urban areas, 31.7 points above the Puducherry share of 68.3%.
Towns in Yanam
Yanam has one census town.
| Town | Population | Literacy | Sex ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yanam (M) | 55,626 | 79.47% | 1038 / 1000 |