3.1.2 Demographic particulars According to 1991 census reports, there were 2118 occupied residential houses and 2138 households in Ramankari village with a total population of 11189. Unlike the state level, male persons (5635) outnumbered the female persons (5554) and the sex ratio stood at 986. Average size of households during the reference period was 5.23. By the year 1998, number of households in the village increased to 2192. Based on the survey conducted in Ramankari during the year 2000, the estimated population in the village is 11965 consisting of 5816 male persons and the estimated sex ratio is found as 997. More than 13 percent of the local populations are 60 or more years old and the percentage of children below 15 years old is found to be 22.29. Dependency rate of the village population is estimated as 35.45 percent. An estimated number of 3276 women are in the age group of 15-49. The General Fertility Rate (GFR) and the Crude Birth Rate (CBR) of the local population are calculated as 56.5 and 15.6 respectively. Age wise distribution of population from 750 households covered in the pilot survey is given in table 3.1.
