East Garo Hills is one of 11 districts located in northeastern Indian state Meghalaya. There are total 3 blocks which comes under East Garo Hills district, and there are total 585 villages which comes under this district.
As per Indian government records district code of East Garo Hills district is 294 and number of houses in this district is 25472.
As per Census 2011, total population of this district is 137329. Out of total 137329, male population count is 69664, where as female population count is 67665 in East Garo Hills.
According to the Indian Government population count of year 2011, this district has total 27691 children are in the age group of 0-6 years. In these 27691 children 13955 are boys and 13736 are girl child.
Literacy rate of East Garo Hills district is 53%. 73025 out of total 137329 population is literate in this district.
Going in details, Male literacy rate in this district is 57% and 40109 males are literate out of total 69664 male population, where as female literacy rate is 51% and 32916 out of total 67665 females are literate in this district.
Coming to dark side, illiteracy rate of East Garo Hills district is 46%. 64304 out of total 137329 population is illiterate in this village. In details, Male illiteracy rate in this district is 42% and 29555 males are illiterate out of total 69664 male population, where as female illiteracy rate is 51% and 34749 out of total 67665 females are illiterate in this district.
Total working population of East Garo Hills district is 58263 and non-working population is 79066 and out of 58263 working population 31205 peoples are totally dependent on agriculture.
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