Bihar · Vaishali · Chehra Kalan
Basti
Population
- Population
- 2,492India 121.09 Cr
Literacy
- Literacy
- 58.82%India 72.98%
- Male Lit.
- 70.83%India 80.88%
- Female Lit.
- 48.81%India 64.63%
- Lit. Gap
- 22.02 ppIndia 16.25 pp
Society
- Sex Ratio
- 1152 / 1000India 943 / 1000
- Child Sex Ratio
- 976 / 1000India 918 / 1000
- Under 7
- 19.50%India 13.59%
- SC %
- 28.49%India 16.63%
- ST %
- 0.12%India 8.63%
- Household
- 5.53India 4.85
Work
- Workers
- 16.93%India 39.80%
- Female Work
- 3.75%India 25.52%
- Main Workers
- 58.29%India 75.24%
- Non-Workers
- 83.07%India 60.20%
This village is classified entirely rural at the 2011 Census, so urban population share does not apply. Density, land area and decadal growth are not published in the Primary Census Abstract. See Methodology.
Basti in context
With 2,492 people at the 2011 Census, Basti was the 426th most populous of its district's 1569 villages, above the district average of 2,079.
Literacy stood at 58.82%, 7.2 points below the district's rural average of 66.04%.
The sex ratio was 1152 women per 1,000 men (257 above the district's rural figure of 895) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 976, 53 above the rural national 923.
16.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 13.6 points below the district's rural rate.