Ladakh: population, poverty, income, health, schools and budgets

Ladakh is a union territory of India, number 35 of 36 by population. Ladakh is projected to have 306,000 residents on 1 July 2026, 0.02% of India's 1.4 billion; 2nd smallest of 36 states and union territories. India has not counted its people since the 2011 census, so this is the official projection made from it by the Technical Group on Population Projections.

In depth

• Economy, jobs and prices in Ladakh: Net state domestic product per person, the usual measure of average income, was ₹242,360 in 2023-24 at current prices; 14th highest of 33 with figures.
• Health in Ladakh: 93.9% of young children (6 to 59 months) in Ladakh were anaemic in 2019-21 (National Family Health Survey 5); all-India: 67.1%; the highest of 36.
• Education in Ladakh: The gross enrolment ratio for secondary school (classes 9 to 12) was 70.4% in 2024-25, a measure of how many teenagers of that age are enrolled (all-India: 68.5%; 16th lowest of 36). It was 78.2% for girls and 63.1% for boys.

More figures

• Combining how many are poor and how poor they are, Ladakh's multidimensional poverty index was 0.02 in 2019-21 (2015-16: 0.05), on a scale where 0 means nobody is deprived; India: 0.07. Source: Reserve Bank of India · saved copy

How union territorys are governed in India

States (28) and union territories (8). Elected state assembly and chief minister; governor appointed by the President. Most union territories are run by an administrator or lieutenant governor appointed by the President.. Local government is a state subject: each state writes its own panchayat and municipal laws.

Every tier of government in India

Other union territories of India

• Uttar Pradesh 243,466,000
• Bihar 132,850,000
• Maharashtra 129,584,000
• West Bengal 100,631,000
• Madhya Pradesh 89,965,000
• Rajasthan 83,879,000
• Tamil Nadu 77,582,000
• Gujarat 74,343,000
• Karnataka 69,074,000
• Andhra Pradesh 53,740,000
• Odisha 44,699,000
• Jharkhand 41,108,000
• Telangana 38,665,000
• Assam 36,815,000
• Kerala 36,239,000
• Haryana 31,409,000
• Punjab 31,370,000
• Chhattisgarh 31,311,000
• Delhi 22,674,000
• Jammu and Kashmir 13,927,000
• Uttarakhand 12,028,000
• Himachal Pradesh 7,588,000
• Tripura 4,268,000
• Meghalaya 3,447,000
• Manipur 3,318,000
• Nagaland 2,299,000
• Puducherry 1,771,000
• Arunachal Pradesh 1,608,000
• Goa 1,601,000
• Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 1,593,000
• Mizoram 1,275,000
• Chandigarh 1,270,000
• Sikkim 709,000
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands 406,000
• Lakshadweep 70,000

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Sources

• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 14: State-wise Children Aged 6-59 Months who are Anaemic, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 88b94ba8796f…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 15: State-wise Pregnant Women Aged 15-49 Years who are Anaemic, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 10416e5dd5f9…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 2: State-wise Birth Rate, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 cb64c147ca84…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 153: State-wise Credit-Deposit Ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks - According to Place of Sanction, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 536e5d4415d4…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 16: State-wise Health Infrastructure - Doctors and Specialists (Rural Health Statistics, 31 March 2023), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 2e055836b4d9…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 1: State-wise Gross Enrolment Ratio, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 58fb80d7f1d3…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 21: Gross State Domestic Product (Current Prices), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 307860e934ba…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 17: State-wise Number of Government Hospitals and Beds, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 86c53d763e42…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 10: State-wise Poverty Estimates - Multi-dimensional Poverty Index, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 c0d6483061a8…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 19: Per Capita Net State Domestic Product (Current Prices), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 1f90818b79f1…)
• National Commission on Population, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: Population Projections for India and States 2011-2036 (Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections), Table 11: projected total population on 1 July, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 9a9031c9c75d…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 151: State-wise Number of Schools by Management and Availability of Functional Computer Facility, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 7b2618ed9a70…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 106: State-wise Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Score, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 f18c2f57a295…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 49: Gross State Value Added by Economic Activity - Services (Current Prices), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 231843665df0…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 13: State-wise Domestic Tourist Visits, read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 14ecc37284d7…)
• Reserve Bank of India: Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2024-25, Table 9: State-wise Unemployment Rate: Usual Status (Adjusted) (Urban), read 23 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 4eef6c004595…)

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