 Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 9.17%.Porbandar has a sex ratio of 947 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 76.63%.At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.76% of the population in the district spoke Gujarati, 1.32% Hindi, 1.06% Sindhi and 0.52% Urdu as their first language.