2001 Census of India
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14th Census of India | |
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General information | |
Country | India |
Results | |
Total population | 1,028,737,436 (21.5%) |
The 2001 Census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.[1]
The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females.[2] 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 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 % 2001 |
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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[12][13] |
First language speakers as a percentage of total population[14] |
Second language speakers[13] |
Third language speakers[13] |
Total speakers[15][13] | Total speakers as a percentage of total population[14] |
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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]
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, USA: 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "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. "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. "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Seetharaman, G. "Seven decades after Independence, many small languages in India face extinction threat" – via The Economic Times.
- ↑ ORGI. "Census of India: Comparative speaker's strength of Scheduled Languages-1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001".
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 S, Rukmini. "Sanskrit and English: there's no competition".
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Census of India : India at a glance / Population". www.censusindia.gov.in.
- ↑ "Indiaspeak: English is our 2nd language". The Times of India.