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It may be noted from Table 1 that North-West district with 2.85 million populations constitutes 20.66% of Delhi and thus occupies the first position. The South district occupies the second position with 16.38% population of the total population of Delhi. The New Delhi district with 1.72 million populations shares only 1.25% of Delhi's population and thus is placed at the lowest rung of the ladder as far as ranking of districts by population size is concerned. The pie chart (Figure 1) given below also depicts the district-wise %age to total state population as per 2001 census in NCT Delhi.

Table 2: District-wise Distribution of Area & Their %age share in state, Sex Ratio & Rank, Population Density & Rank as per 2001 Census and Percentage Decadal Population Growth (1991-2001) in NCT Delhi

S. NO	Name of District	Area of District		Sex Ratio		Population Density		PercentageDecadal Population Growth (1991-2001)
		Area* (km2)	%age share in State	No. of Females per thousand Males	Rank	Population Density(per sq. k.m.)	Rank
1	North-West	440.00	29.66	820	6	6,471	7	+60.12
2	South	250.00	16.86	797	7	9,033	6	+50.27
3	West	129.00	8.70	830	4	16,431	4	+47.81
4	North-East	60.00	4.05	851	1	29,395	1	+62.52
5	South-West	420.00	28.32	783	9	4,165	9	+61.29
6	East	64.00	4.31	845	2	22,637	3	+41.61
7	North	60.00	4.05	826	5	12,996	5	+13.30
8	Central	25.00	1.68	843	3	25,760	2	-1.91
9	New Delhi	35.00	2.36	791	8	4,909	8	+2.47
10	NCT Delhi State	1483.00	100.00	821	-	9,294	-	+46.31

Note: Since in 1991 Census, there was only one district in Delhi and in 2001, Census it has nine districts, hence 1991, data is derived by recasting the data of 1991 Census according to the present jurisdiction of all the nine districts.
* The area figures are as per survey of India. Dehradun

Table 2 given above indicate the district-wise distribution of area and their percentage share in state, sex ratio and rank, population density and rank as per 2001 census and percentage decadal population growth (1991-2001) in NCT Delhi. In the area North -West district occupy the largest portion i.e. 440 sq. k.m. and having the 29.66% share of total NCT area, while the Central district having the smallest area i.e. only 25 sq. k.m. constituting the 1.68% share of total NCT area. Sex ratio presented in terms of number of females per thousand males is an important demographic indicator and therefore it's analysis was undertaken. It may be noted from this table that the highest sex ratio is recorded in North -East district i.e. 851 where as it is the lowest i.e. 783 in South -West district. The sex ratio of Delhi as a whole has been recorded 821 in 2001 census. It may therefore be noted that five districts namely North district (826), North -East district (851), East district (845), Central district (843), West district (830) had sex ratio above the NCT sex ratio as a whole and remaining four districts namely North-West district (820), New Delhi district (791), South-West district (783) and South district (797) have sex ratio below the NCT sex ratio as a whole. Similarly, population density is also one of the important indices of population consternation-defined as the number of persons living per square kilometre. The density of population for NCT Delhi works out at 9294 persons per sq. k.m. It may be noted from the table that the highest density of population is recorded in North-East district i.e. 29,395. The South-West district has the lowest population density i.e. 4,165. As far percentage decadal population growth (1991-2001) is concerned, Delhi's population has recorded 46.31% as against the national population growth i.e. 21.34% for the same period. The district-wise distribution of percentage decadal population growth (1991-2001) in NCT Delhi is also given in following graph (Figure 2).

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