Demographics of Tamil Nadu

At the 2011 Census of India, the population of the state of Tamil Nadu was 72,147,039, increasing from 62.4 million in 2001.

[citation needed] The following table shows the distributions of male and female populations of Tamil Nadu's districts, as of 2011:[citation needed] As of 2011, Tamil Nadu's growth rate was 15.61%.

[citation needed] It performed reasonably well in literacy growth from 2001 to 2011, increasing from 73.47% to 80.09%.

It came second in the CBSE pass percentage at 92.3%, after Trivandrum[2] Region.

At the 2001 census, Tamil Nadu had 27,878,282 workers (44.67% of its population) and 34,527,397 non-workers (55.33%).