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Chamba villages

Himachal Pradesh · Chamba · Chaurah

Shikari (416)

1,321
people at the 2011 Census · 645 male, 676 female

Population

Population
1,321India 121.09 Cr

Literacy

Literacy
62.58%India 72.98%
Male Lit.
76.67%India 80.88%
Female Lit.
49.32%India 64.63%
Lit. Gap
27.35 ppIndia 16.25 pp

Society

Sex Ratio
1048 / 1000India 943 / 1000
Child Sex Ratio
957 / 1000India 918 / 1000
Under 7
13.63%India 13.59%
SC %
28.69%India 16.63%
ST %
0.00%India 8.63%
Household
5.46India 4.85

Work

Workers
41.86%India 39.80%
Female Work
34.91%India 25.52%
Main Workers
77.40%India 75.24%
Non-Workers
58.14%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.

Shikari (416) in context

With 1,321 people at the 2011 Census, Shikari (416) was the 27th most populous of its district's 1591 villages, above the district average of 304.

Literacy stood at 62.58%, 8.0 points below the district's rural average of 70.60%.

The sex ratio was 1048 women per 1,000 men (52 above the district's rural figure of 996) — one of the minority of villages where women outnumbered men. Among children aged 0–6 the ratio was 957, 34 above the rural national 923.

41.9% of the population were recorded as workers, 16.3 points below the district's rural rate.