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East Khasi Hills villages

Meghalaya · East Khasi Hills · Shella Bholaganj

Mawsahew

360
people at the 2011 Census · 179 male, 181 female

Population

Population
360India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
97.61%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
97.30%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
97.93%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
-0.63 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1011 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1161 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
18.61%India 13.59%
SC %
0.00%India 16.63%
ST %
98.89%India 8.63%
Household
4.50India 4.85

Work

Workers
31.11%India 39.80%
Female Work
14.92%India 25.52%
Main Workers
82.14%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
68.89%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.

Mawsahew in context

With 360 people at the 2011 Census, Mawsahew was the 399th most populous of its district's 975 villages, below the district average of 471.

Literacy stood at 97.61%, 19.9 points above the district's rural average of 77.73%.

The sex ratio was 1011 women per 1,000 men (level with the district's rural figure of 1011) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1161, 238 above the rural national 923.

31.1% of the population were recorded as workers, 10.4 points below the district's rural rate.