Monday, January 6, 2014

Basic Characteristic of East India’s Villages


The 2011 Census data released by Office of Registrar General of India just recently has been further analyzed in order to get characteristic of Indian Village, particularly of Eastern part of India which comprise of its states namely, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya.  There are about two hundred sixty eight thousand villages in East India and these house over 324 million people i.e. the average size or occupants per village  comes out to be about 1208. The other characteristics are:
Ø  The villages with population of less than 200 are forty two thousand (15.6% of total number) and the average population is only 104 and these house about 1.3 percent of its total rural population. 
Ø  The villages with population between 200 and 500 are about 60 thousand (22% of total number) and the average population is only 344 and these house over six percent of its total rural population.
Ø   The villages with population between 500 and 1000 are about 67 thousand (25% of total number) and the average population is only 723 and these house about fifteen percent of its total rural population.
Ø   The villages with population between 1000 and 2000 are about 57 thousand (21% of total number) and the average population is only 1407 and these house about twenty five percent of total rural population.
Ø  The villages with population between 2000 and 5000 are about 34 thousand as well (13% of total number) and the average population is only 2976 and these house about thirty one and a half percent of total rural population.
Ø  The villages with population between 5000 and 10000 are about 6.5 thousand (2% of total number) and the average population is only 6648 and these house about thirteen percent of total rural population.
Ø  The villages with population over 10000 are only 1671 (0.6% of total number) and the average population is 14892 and these house about 7.7 percent of total rural population. The bigger villages lie mostly in Bihar.

Eastern India is having variety of villages both small and big.  The following table gives state wise averages of smallest class of up to 200 populations, of biggest class of over 10000 populations and overall average size are as below:




STATE
Average for Below 200 Population Class
Average for Above 10000 Population Class
Average Size of Villages
BIHAR
103
15075
2363
SIKKIM
60
0
1075
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
83
0
203
NAGALAND
127
11116
1005
MANIPUR
124
12028
730
MIZORAM
123
0
746
TRIPURA
125
13236
3143
MEGHALAYA
115
0
367
ASSAM
108
16707
1057
WEST BENGAL
107
14778
1659
JHARKHAND
105
13883
850
ODISHA
102
12740
733
CHHATTISGARH
115
11520
1002
MADHYA PRADESH
101
12321
1012
EASTERN INDIA
104
14892
1208

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