Demographics
According to the 2011 census Kishanganj district has a population of 1,690,948, roughly equal to the nation of Guinea-Bissau or the US state of Idaho. This gives it a ranking of 293rd in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 898 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,330 /sq mi) . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 30.44%. Kishanganj has a sex ratio of 946 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 57.04%.
A vast majority of the people live in the villages. A predominantly Muslim area, with Muslims forming about 70 per cent of the population, there are also Hindus of whom Surajpuris and other backward castes predominate. There also are small Santal pockets. The inhabitants of Kishanganj mostly speaks SURJAPURI/Rajbongshi, which is considered to be a dialect of Bengali language and native to northern Bengal.
Kishanganj district had a literacy rate of 31.02 per cent in 2001, the lowest amongst all the districts of Bihar. The literacy rate of Bihar at 47.53 per cent is amongst the lowest in India, which has a literacy rate of 64.84 per cent. While the male literacy rate in Kishanganj district stood at 42.8 per cent, female literacy at 18.49 per cent was the lowest in India.
See also - Literacy In Bihar
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