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Urban
Growth
In
Orissa out of the total population of
36,706,920 as on
1st
March, 2001,
31,210,602 live in rural areas and
5,496,318 in urban
areas. The net addition of population in rural areas during
1991-2001 has been to the tune of
3685399
while in urban areas it is
1261785.
The percentage decadal growth of population in rural and urban
areas during the decade is
13.8 and
29.78 percent
respectively.
The percentage of urban population to the total population of the
states stands at 14.97. The percentage of urban population to
total population in the 1991 Census was 13.33 percent. Thus, there
has been an increase on 1.64 percentage points in the proportion
of urban population in the state during 1991 – 2001. |
