AHMEDABAD: While sex ratio in India has dipped to a historic low of 914 girls per 1,000 boys in the 0-6 age-group, numbers in Gujarat have a happy story to tell. The ratio in Gujarat has marginally improved from 883 to 886, according to 2011 census report.

Chennai city has three lakh more people living in it now than it had in 2001.

Dramatic reverses in Ariyalur and Cuddalore
Female literacy has improved in State
CHENNAI: While the overall child sex ratio has improved in Tamil Nadu, the dip in the boy-girl ratio in at least 14 districts, including Chennai, provides the demographic downside in the provisional population figures of the 2011 Census released on Friday.

According to the datasheet, the child sex ratio (CSR) in

Child Sex Ratio Worse In Prosperous, More Educated States: Census 2011
With the provisional figures for the 2011 Census sounding an alarm over the falling child sex ratio, it

Bihar might still figure among the lowest-literacy states in India, but it has surprised everyone by posting the second-highest decadal growth in female literacy rates in the country.

The number of literate women in the state more than doubled from 10,4,65,201 in 2001 to 21,6,78,279 in 2011-- a 107 per cent growth, which is next only to Dadra and Nagar Haveli

With a total headcount of 68,56,509, the latest Census reveals an appreciable decline in the decadal growth rate and a marked improvement in the key indicators like literacy and female sex ratio in the hill state.

The decadal (2001-2011) growth rate came down to 12.81 from 17.54 (1991-2001), which was less than 17.64 per cent for the country, and the state accounted for only 0.57 per cent of th

JAIPUR: The population of Rajasthan has grown by 21.44% in the last decade and currently stands at 68,621,012. The number of males in the state stands at 35,620,086 while that of females is 33,000,926.

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa

Nagaland appeared to have sprung a surprise by registering a negative population growth - minus 0.47 per cent , implying its population has decreased since last count.

This was, however, easily explained from the fact that the base figure was unreliable.