Population

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Total Population, Population of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and their proportions to the total population:

State	Total Population	Scheduled Castes (SC) Population	Scheduled Tribes (ST) Population	Proportion of SC population	Proportion of ST population
Arunachal Pradesh	1097968	6188	705158	0.6	64.2
Assam	26655528	1825949	3308570	6.9	12.4
Manipur	2166788	60037	741141	2.8	34.2
Meghalaya	2318822	11139	1992862	0.5	85.9
Mizoram	888573	272	839310	0.0	94.5
Nagaland	1990036	-	1774026	0.0	89.1
Sikkim	540851	27165	111405	5.0	20.6
Tripura	3199203	555724	993426	17.4	31.1

Source: Primary Census Abstract: Census of India 2001

Number of Literate and literacy rate by sex:

State	Population			Number of literates			Literacy rate
State	Person	Male	Female	Person	Male	Female	Person	Male	Female
Arunachal Pradesh	1097968	579941	518027	484785	303281	181504	54.3	63.84	43.54
Assam	26655528	13777037	12878491	14015354	8188697	5826657	63.37	71.3	54.6
Manipur	2166788	1095634	1071154	1310534	753466	557068	70.5	80.3	60.5
Meghalaya	2318822	1176087	1142735	1157875	614272	543603	62.6	65.4	59.6
Mizoram	888573	459109	429464	661445	350105	311340	88.8	90.7	86.7
Nagaland	1990036	1047141	942895	1132323	640201	492122	66.6	71.2	61.5
Sikkim	540851	288484	252367	318335	189060	129275	68.8	76.0	60.4
Tripura	3199203	1642225	1556978	2022099	1150707	871392	73.2	81.0	64.9

Source: Primary Census Abstract: Census of India 2001

Distribution of Population by Area-2001 (Persons):

State	Total	Rural	Urban
Arunachal Pradesh	1097961	870087	227881
Assam	26655528	232116288	3439240
Manipur	2166700	1590820	575968
Meghalaya	2318822	1864711	454111
Mizoram	888575	447567	441006
Nagaland	1990036	1647249	342787
Sikkim	540851	480981	59870
Tripura	3199203	2653453	545750
Total	28857769	32771156	6086613
All India	1028610328	742490639	286119689

Source : NER Basic Statistics 2006

Distribution of Workers by Category of Workers (e.g., Cultivators, Agricultural Labourers, Household Industries Workers and Other Workers by Sex:

India/ State/Ut	Total workers	Cultivators		Agricultural labourers		Household industry workers		Other worker
India/ State/Ut	Total workers	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Arunachal Pradesh
Persons	482902	279300	57.8	18840	3.9	6043	6,043	6043	6043
Male	293612	136336	46.4	10329	3.5	3177	1.1	143770	49.0
Female	189290	142964	75.5	8511	4.5	2866	1.5	34949	18.5
Assam
Persons	9538591	3730773	39.1	1263532	13.2	344912	3.6	4199374	44.0
Male	6870960	2634068	38.3	832508	12.1	133902	1.9	3270482	47.6
Female	2667631	1096705	41.1	431024	16.2	211010	7.9	928892	34.8
Manipur
Persons	945213	379705	40.2	113630	12.0	96920	10.3	354958	37.6
Male	527216	214282	40.6	49928	9.5	20547	3.9	242459	46.0
Female	417997	165423	39.6	63702	15.2	76373	18.3	112499	26.9
Meghalaya
Persons	970146	467010	48.1	171694	17.7	21225	2.2	310217	32.0
Male	568491	255018	44.9	90888	16.0	9358	1.6	213227	37.5
Female	401655	211992	52.8	80806	20.1	11867	3.0	96990	24.1
Mizoram
Persons	467159	256332	54.9	26783	5.7	7100	1.5	176944	37.9
Male	263008	130497	49.6	12775	4.9	3476	1.3	116260	44.2
Female	204151	125835	61.6	14008	6.9	3624	1.8	60684	29.7
Nagaland
Persons	847796	548845	64.7	30907	3.6	21873	2.6	246171	29.0
Male	488968	270927	55.4	15985	3.3	9193	1.9	192863	39.4
Female	358828	277918	77.5	14922	4.2	12680	3.5	53308	14.9
Sikkim
Persons	263043	13,258	49.9	17000	6.5	4219	1.6	110566	42.0
Male	165716	70107	42.3	8762	5.3	2849	1.7	83998	50.7
Female	97327	61151	62.8	8238	8.5	1370	1.4	26568	27.3
Tripura
Persons	1159561	313300	27.0	276132	23.8	35292	3.0	534837	46.1
Male	831346	220962	26.6	162640	19.6	14830	1.8	432914	52.1
Female	328215	92338	28.1	113492	34.6	20462	6.2	101923	31.1

Source: Primary Census Abstract: Census of India 2001

Number of total worker, main and marginal worker by sex Census of India-2001:

India/ State/Ut	Total workers			Main worker			Marginal worker
India/ State/Ut	Person	Male	Female	Person	Male	Female	Person	Male	Female
Assam	9538,591	6870960	2667631	7114097	5849032	1265065	2424494	1021928	1402566
Arunachal Pradesh	482902	293612	189290	415007	267384	147623	67895	26228	41667
Nagaland	847796	488968	358828	703977	424811	279166	143819	64157	79662
Manipur	945213	527216	417997	659364	430227	229137	285849	96989	188860
Mizoram	467159	263008	204151	362450	225428	137022	104709	37580	67129
Meghalaya	970146	568491	401655	757011	485694	271317	213135	82797	130338
Tripura	1159561	831346	328215	912292	742054	170238	247269	89292	157977
Sikkim	263043	165716	97327	212904	146541	66363	50139	19175	30964

Source: Primary Census Abstract: Census of India 2001