POPULATION (2001 census)	60348023
MALES	31443652
FEMALES	28904371
SEX RATIO (females/1000 males)	920
DENSITY OF POPULATION (Persons/ Square Km)	196
URBAN POPULATION %	26.67
LITERACY RATE (census 2001) in %	63.7
MALE LITERACY in %	76.1
MALE LITERATE in numbers	19672274
FEMALE LITERACY in %	50.3
FEMALE LITERATE in numbers	11920289
BIRTH RATE (PER 1000) (2002)P	30.3
DEATH RATE (PER 1000)	9.7
NSDP at current prices (2002-2003)* Rs Crores	71387 Rs Crores *(2002-2003)
PER CAPITA NSDP (2002-03) at current prices Rs	11438 Rs *(2002-2003)

(2002)P: Provisional
*(2002-03): Advanced Estimates
*(2001-02): Quick Estimate
*(2000-01): Provisional Estimate
NSDP: Net State Domestic product
Source: Directorate of Economics & Statistics of respective State Governments (As on March 26, 2004), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India

USEFUL INFORMATION

Economic Activity: Manufacturing- 26%; Services- 28%; Agriculture - 46%

Investor Profile: Govt. 42.2%; Foreign 13.1%; Indian 44.7%

State priority areas: Electronics; Minerals, food and agriculture industries; telecom; Auto.

Investment Strengths: Proactiveness in seeking investment; non-disruptive labour environment; connectivity to large northern and western markets

Road length per 1000 km : 460
Cell phone/ 100 persons: 0.29
Railway track length /00 sq km: 1.3
Surfaced roads/ 00 sq km: 20.8
Gwalior, Jabalpur, Bhopal and Indore are the domestic airports. Panna, and Khandwa are the two non operational airports in Madhya Pradesh.

MAJOR INDUSTRIES

OPTICAL FIBRES
AUTOMOBILES
SOYABEAN
PROCESSING
CEMENT
FERTILIZERS
PAPER AND PULP
TYRE AND TUBES GASES
ELECTRONIC GOODS