has a population density of 140 inhabitants per square kilometre (360 /sq mi)  Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 17.83 %. Bastar has a sex ratio of 1024 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 54.94 %. In 1981 Bastar had a population of 1,842,854 with 1,249,197 of