The 2001 census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.[1]
| 14th census of India | ||
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| General information | ||
| Country | India | |
| Results | ||
| Total population | 1,028,737,436 (21.5%) | |
| Most populous | Uttar Pradesh (166,053,600) | |
| Least populous | Sikkim (541,902) | |
The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females.[2] The total population increased by 182,310,397, 21.5% more than the 846,427,039 people counted during the 1991 census.[2]
Religious demographics edit
Hindus comprise 82.75 crore (80.45%) and Muslims were 13.8 crore (13.4%) in the 2001 census.[3][4] Census 2001 showed 108 faiths under the head "Other Religions and Persuasion" (ORP) in India.[5] 700,000 people did not state their religion.[6]
| Religious group |
Population % |
|---|---|
| Hindu | 80.45% |
| Muslim | 13.4% |
| Christian | 2.34% |
| Sikh | 1.89% |
| Buddhist | 0.74% |
| Animist, others | 0.43% |
| Jain | 0.46% |
Language demographics edit
Hindi is the most widely spoken language in northern parts of India. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of "Hindi languages". According to 2001 census, 53.6% of Indian population know Hindi, in which 41% of them have declared Hindi as their native language or mother tongue.[7][8][9] English is known to 12.18% Indians in the 2001 census. The number of bilingual speakers in India is 25.50 crore, which is 24.8% of the population in 2001.[10] India (780) has the world's second highest number of languages, after Papua New Guinea (839).[11]
| Language | First language speakers | Second language speakers[12] |
Third language speakers[12] |
Total speakers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number [13][12] | % of total pop.[14] | number [15][12] | % of total pop.[14] | |||
| Hindi | 422,048,642 | 41.03% |
98,207,180 | 31,160,696 | 551,416,518 | 53.60% |
| English | 226,449 | 0.02% |
86,125,221 | 38,993,066 | 125,344,736 | 12.18% |
| Bengali | 83,369,769 | 8.10% |
6,637,222 | 1,108,088 | 91,115,079 | 8.86% |
| Telugu | 74,002,856 | 7.19% |
9,723,626 | 1,266,019 | 84,992,501 | 8.26% |
| Marathi | 71,936,894 | 6.99% |
9,546,414 | 2,701,498 | 84,184,806 | 8.18% |
| Tamil | 60,793,814 | 5.91% |
4,992,253 | 956,335 | 66,742,402 | 6.49% |
| Urdu | 51,536,111 | 5.01% |
6,535,489 | 1,007,912 | 59,079,512 | 5.74% |
| Kannada | 37,924,011 | 3.69% |
11,455,287 | 1,396,428 | 50,775,726 | 4.94% |
| Gujarati | 46,091,617 | 4.48% |
3,476,355 | 703,989 | 50,271,961 | 4.89% |
| Odia | 33,017,446 | 3.21% |
3,272,151 | 319,525 | 36,609,122 | 3.56% |
| Malayalam | 33,066,392 | 3.21% |
499,188 | 195,885 | 33,761,465 | 3.28% |
| Sanskrit | 14,135 | <0.01% |
1,234,931 | 3,742,223 | 4,991,289 | 0.49% |
Graphical summaries edit
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Overview of 2001 population, separated by gender and age bracket. -
2001 overview based on religious affiliation and language.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Vijayanunni, M. (26–29 August 1998). "Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census" (PDF). 18th Population Census Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii, US: Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ a b "Home/Census Data 2001/India at a glance". New Delhi: Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Ministry of Home Affairs. 2001. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
- ^ Abantika Ghosh, Vijaita Singh (24 January 2015). "Census: Hindu share dips below 80%, Muslim share grows but slower". Indian Express.
- ^ D’Souza, Dilip (16 December 2014). "With current trends, it will take 220 years for India's Muslim population to equal Hindu numbers". Scroll.in.
- ^ "Fewer minor faiths in India now, finds Census; number of their adherents up". 1 August 2016.
- ^ "Indian rationalism, Charvaka to Narendra Dabholkar". 21 August 2018.
- ^ D, John Samuel Raja (24 July 2014). "These four charts break down India's complex relationship with Hindi". Quartz.
- ^ "Nearly 60% of Indians speak a language other than Hindi | India News – Times of India". The Times of India. 21 June 2014.
- ^ "Census of India: Comparative speaker's strength of Scheduled Languages-1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001". www.censusindia.gov.in.
- ^ "Hindi migrants speaking Marathi rise to 60 lakh | Mumbai News – Times of India". The Times of India. 4 October 2018.
- ^ Seetharaman, G. (13 August 2017). "Seven decades after Independence, many small languages in India face extinction threat". The Economic Times.
- ^ a b c d S, Rukmini (24 November 2014). "Sanskrit and English: there's no competition". The Hindu.
- ^ ORGI. "Census of India: Comparative speaker's strength of Scheduled Languages-1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001".
- ^ a b "Census of India : India at a glance / Population". www.censusindia.gov.in.
- ^ "Indiaspeak: English is our 2nd language". The Times of India. 14 March 2010.
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