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Awaran District

ضلع آواران
Awaran District ضلع آواران
District of Balochistan
	Map of Pakistani districts with Awaran district highlighted in maroon
Country	Pakistan
Province	Balochistan
Division	Qalat
Notified	11 November 1992
Headquarters	Awaran
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Engineer Ayesha Zehri
• District Health Officer	Dr Muhammad Aslam
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• District of Balochistan	29,510 km2 (11,390 sq mi)
Population (2023)
• District of Balochistan	178,958
• Density	6.1/km2 (16/sq mi)
• Urban	46,836
• Rural	132,122
Time zone	UTC+5 (PKT)
Number of Tehsils	3
Tehsils	Awaran; Jhal Jhao; Mashkai
Website	www.bdd.sdnpk.org/awaran.htm

Awaran District (Balochi and Urdu: ضلع آواران), is a district in the southern part of the Balochistan province of Pakistan in Kalat division.

It was created as a separate district on 11 November 1992;^[1] previously it was a sub-division of Khuzdar District consisting areas of tehsil Mashkey & Jhal Jhao.^[2] It is considered one of the poorest districts in the province.^[3]

It is located in the south of the Balochistan province in Kalat division. Awaran district is bordered by Gwadar to its south and south west, Lasbela to its east and south, Kech and Panjgur to its west, Khuzdar to its north east and Washuk to its north.

Administration

The district is administratively subdivided into the following five tehsils,^[4] which are sub-divided into eight union councils:^[5]

#	Tehsil^[6]	Area(km²)^[7]	Pop.(2023)	Density(ppl/km²) (2023)	Literacy rate (2023)^[8]	Union Councils
1	Awaran^[4]^[5]	13,075	45,774	3.50	42.90%	Awaran Teertage
2	Gishkaur Tehsil	4,578	31,462	6.87	36.34%	Gishkaur
3	Jhal Jhao^[4]^[5]	6,381	28,132	4.41	26.62%	Camp Jahoo^[5]
4	Korak Jahoo Tehsil	3,058	27,652	9.04	26.71%	Korak
5	Mashkai^[4]^[5]	2,418	45,938	19.00	41.21%	Gajjar Nokjo Parwar^[5]

Demographics

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1951	N/A	—
1961	N/A	—
1972	N/A	—
1981	110,353	—
1998	118,173	+0.40%
2017	121,680	+0.15%
2023	178,958	+6.64%
Sources:^[9] ^[10] ^[11] ^[12]

As of the 2023 census, Awaran district has 27,796 households and a population of 178,958. The district has a sex ratio of 104.93 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 36.34%: 44.28% for males and 27.95% for females.^[13]^[14] 62,549 (34.95% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age.^[15] 46,836 (26.17%) live in urban areas.^[13]

The major tribes are the Shahwani, Bizenjo, Muhammad Hassani, Sajidi, Siapad, Mirwani, Rakhshani, Sumalani, Qambrani, Shadainzai, Haibwari & Zehri(Channaal).^[16]

Religions in Awaran district (2023)^[17]
Religion			Percent
Islam			99%
Other			1%

Religion

Majority of population adheres to Islamic faith. 1,785 (1.00%) were from religious minorities. Awaran is known for its Zikri minority and a few Hindus.

Languages of Awaran district (2023)

Balochi (98.58%)

Brahui (1.17%)

Others (0.66%)

Language

At the time of the 2023 census, 98.58% of the population spoke Balochi and 1.17% Brahui as their first language.^[17]

Balochi accounted for 99.7% of the population in the 1998 census.^[18] The previous census of 1981 reported that 8% of the households in the then subdivision of Awaran had Brahui as a first language.^[19]

References

^ ^a ^b "Awaran District - A District Profile". United Nations and Balochistan Bureau of Statistics website. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ 1998 Census report, p. 1.
^ "Awaran District Balochistan Flood Assessment p. 6. July 2007" (PDF). pdi.org website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Awaran District". Government of Balochistan website. Archived from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Tehsils & Unions in the District of Awaran". National Reconstruction Bureau, Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names
^ "AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, BALOCHISTAN" (PDF).
^ "TABLE 12 : LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY SEX AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023, BALOCHISTAN" (PDF).
^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ Awaran District Archived 12 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine Population Census Organisation, Government of Pakistan. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
^ "Awaran District population per 2017 census" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ "Area, Population by Sex, Sex Ratio, Population Density, Urban Population, Household Size and Annual Growth Rate, Census-2023, Balochistan" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ ^a ^b "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 1" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ "7th Population and Housing Census - Detailed Results: Table 12" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ "7th Population and Housing Census: Population by Mother Tongue, Sex and Rural/Urban" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ 1998 Census report, p. 5.
^ ^a ^b "Population by Mother Tongue, Sex and Rural/Urban, Census-2023" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ 1998 Census report, p. 16.
^ 1981 Census report, p. 84.

Bibliography

1981 District census report of Khuzdar. Census publication. Vol. 12. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1983.
1998 District census report of Awaran. Census publication. Vol. 89. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.