As
per the data published by the Indian Census authority, Gujarat State of India
comprise of about five percent of India’s total population as per 2011
Census. Its population has grown about 19% during the decade (2001-11),
whereas all-India has grown by 17.64% during the corresponding period.
Thus, there are many other states who are growing less faster than Gujarat.
The highest growth in total population has been observed for the district
Kachchh (about 32%) of Gujarat, whereas its Amreli district has witnessed lowest
growth of about 8.6% during the decade. The other three districts namely,
Surat, Gandhinagar (Capital) and Ahmadabad also downsized their rural
areas.
Although
the urbanization has increased by over 5% from about 37% in 2001, the
population pressure has decreased only in Dohad district (which is mainly
rural) by about 1/2% during the decade. The decadal growth of females had
been less than that of males in the Gujarat. The only district Dohad where
there had been marginal increase in rural population share and it is now around
91% from 90%. The Gujarat share of urban population (42.6%) is much more
than that of All-India (31.2%).
The
sex ratio for total population of Gujarat has lowered further during the last
decade from 920 (2001) to 918 (2011) as against 954 in the 1901 census.
There had been increase in sex ratio in rural population of Gujarat from 945 in
2001 census to 947 this census. Urban sex ratio has remained same at 880
over the last two censuses. For the year 2001 and 2011, the sex ratio in
urban areas has remained at the lowest level in all the censuses conducted
since 1901 in the state of Gujarat. The urban sex ratio for the district Surat
has decreased from already lowest level of 763 to further low level of 757.
Sixteen out of 26 districts have shown increased sex ratio in their rural
population. Highest/ lowest sex ratio in
rural part of the various districts is in Tapi (1009) / Kachchh (910) districts
respectively.
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