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Purnia villages

Bihar · Purnia · Dagarua

Sahawa

181
people at the 2011 Census · 78 male, 103 female

Population

Population
181India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
27.54%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
21.31%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
32.47%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
-11.16 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1321 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
1529 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
23.76%India 13.59%
SC %
11.05%India 16.63%
ST %
83.98%India 8.63%
Household
5.48India 4.85

Work

Workers
60.77%India 39.80%
Female Work
52.43%India 25.52%
Main Workers
64.55%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
39.23%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.

Sahawa in context

With 181 people at the 2011 Census, Sahawa was the 1035th most populous of its district's 1273 villages, below the district average of 2,295.

Literacy stood at 27.54%, 20.8 points below the district's rural average of 48.38%.

The sex ratio was 1321 women per 1,000 men (398 above the district's rural figure of 923) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 1529, 606 above the rural national 923.

60.8% of the population were recorded as workers, 25.1 points above the district's rural rate.