Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Apr 1: The state’s population has risen by 82,80,142 during the past decade, reaching a figure of 6,11,30,704 as per the provisional census 2011 figures, which have been made available now. In 2001, the state’s population was put at 5,28,50,562. Directorate of Census Operations also said that population-wise, the state ranks ninth in the country in descending order, with its population forming one twentieth of the country’s population.

The directorate will arrange to release figures pertaining to individual states in the respective state capitals on April 6.

In tune with the trends elsewhere in the country, the male population, at 3,10,57,742, outnumbers the female population, which has been calculated to be 3,00,22,962. As against the 2001 census figures of 965 female for every thousand males, the ratio has slightly improved to 968 women for every 1,000 men this time.

The population per square kilometre has gone up to 319 as against 276 a decade back.

The number of children up to the age of six is 68,55,801. However, the cause for concern here is that the male female ratio in this age group has gone down from 946 in 2001 to 943 now. Literacy percentage has reached 75.6 percent from 56.6 percent ten years ago. Literacy rate among men has gone up to 82.85 percent from 76.01, while this rate for women has touched 68.13 percent from 56.90 during the last decade, the census figure reveal.