Maharashtra State of India
comprise of about one-tenth of India’s total population as per 2011
Census. Its population has grown about 16%
during the decade (2001-11), whereas all-India has grown by 17.64% during the
corresponding period. The highest growth
in total population has been observed for the district Thane (about 36%), whereas
Mumbai district has witnessed negative growth of about 6% during the
decade. The other two districts namely,
Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg also downsized and this was only in their rural
areas.
Although the urbanization has
increased by only 3% from 42% in 2001, the population pressure has decreased in
Mumbai district (which is only urban) by about 6% during the decade. The decadal growth of females had been more
than that of males in the Maharashtra. The
only district Hingoli where there had been marginal increase in rural
population share and it is now around 85%.
The Maharashtra share of urban population (45%) is much more than that
of All-India (31%).
The sex ratio for total population of Maharashtra
has now improved from 922 (2001) to 925 (2011) as against 978 in the 1901
census. There had been decrease in sex
ratio in rural population of Maharashtra from 960 in 2001 census to 948 this
census. Urban sex ratio has improved
from 873 to 899 over the last two censuses.
For the year 2011, the sex ratio in urban areas has improved over all the
censuses conducted since 1901 in the state of Maharashtra. The urban sex ratio for the district
Nandurbar has decreased from 930 to 891.
Most of the districts have shown decreased sex ratio in their rural
population except for the districts namely, Wardha, Nagpur, Chandrapur, Thane,
Sanli and Yavatmal.
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