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| {{Infobox census
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| | country = [[India]]
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| | date = {{start date|1991}}
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| | population = 838,583,988
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| | previous_census = [[1981 Census of India|1981]]
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| | next_year = 2001
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| | next_census = 2001 Census of India
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| The '''1991 Census of India''' was the 13th in a series of [[census of India|censuses]] held in [[India]] every decade since [[Census of India prior to independence|1872]].<ref name="Vijayanunni">{{cite web|url=http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf|title=Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census |author=Vijayanunni, M. |format= [[PDF]] |date= 26–29 August 1998 |work=18th Population Census Conference |location= Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | publisher= Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific |archivedate=19 November 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119080707/http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf |accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref>
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| The population of India was counted as 838,583,988.<ref name="Dev">{{cite book|url=http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C04/E6-87-07-05.pdf |year=2010 |title=Comparative Literature : Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity |author=Dev, Amiya |chapter=Literary Multilingualism II : Multilingualism in India |volume=2 |pages=172–183 |editor=Lisa Block de Behar |editor2=Paola Mildonian |editor3=Jean-Michel Djian |editor4=Djlel Kadir |editor5=Alfons Knauth |editor6=Dolores Romero Lopez |editor7=Marcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva |series=[[Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems]] }} Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Paris, France, [http://www.eolss.net]. Retrieved 17 December 2014.</ref> The number of enumerators was 1.6 million.<ref name="Vijayanunni"/>
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| ==Religious demographics==
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| Hindus comprises 69.01 crore(81.53%) and Muslims were 12.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scroll.in/article/694975/with-current-trends-it-will-take-220-years-for-indias-muslim-population-to-equal-hindu-numbers|title=With current trends, it will take 220 years for India's Muslim population to equal Hindu numbers}}</ref>
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| ;Population trends for major religious groups in India (1991)
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| ! Population % '''1991'''
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| ! style="background:#e5bca6;"| [[Hinduism|Hindu]]
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| | 81.53%
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| ! style="background:#bdbf97;"| [[Islam|Muslim]]
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| | 12.61%
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| ! style="background:#a69a8e;"| [[Christianity|Christian]]
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| | 2.32%
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| ! | [[Sikhism|Sikh]]
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| | 1.94%
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| ! style="background:#f6e4a0;"| [[Buddhism|Buddhist]]
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| | 0.77%
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| ! | [[Jainism|Jain]]
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| | 0.40%
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| ! | Parsi
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| | 0.08%
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| ! style="background:#b4a28e;"| [[Animism|Animist]], others
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| | 0.44%
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| ==Language data==
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| The 1991 census recognizes 1,576 classified "mother tongues". According to the 1991 census, 22 'languages' had more than a million native speakers, 50 had more than 100,000 and 114 had more than 10,000 native speakers. The remaining accounted for a total of 566,000 native speakers (out of a total of 838 million Indians in 1991).<ref name="Census1991">{{cite web |author=Mallikarjun, B. |title=Languages of India according to 2001 Census |url=http://www.languageinindia.com/nov2001/1991Languages.html |website=Languages in India |date=7 November 2001 |accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref>
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| The number of [[Sanskrit]] speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/where-are-the-sanskrit-speakers/article6299433.ece|title=Where are the Sanskrit speakers?}}</ref><!--, consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females.<ref name="glance2001"/>--> <!--Total population increased by 182,310,397, 21.5% more than the 846,427,039 people counted during the 1991 census.<ref name="glance2001"/>-->
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| ==Other statistics==
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| * [[Census town]]s in 1991 census of India were 1,702.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/census-findings-point-to-decade-of-rural-distress/article2484996.ece|title=Census findings point to decade of rural distress}}</ref>
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| * [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] was excluded from Census-taking in 1991 due to [[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/01/09/where-are-indias-census-figures-on-religion/|title=Where Are India’s 2011 Census Figures on Religion?}}</ref> The number for J&K was derived by interpolation for the population of religious communities in the state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/11/16/stories/2004111600080700.htm|title=Religion Census: A faithful count}}</ref>
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| * Census was not conducted in Assam in the previous census in 1981 due to [[Assam separatist movements|separatist movements]] that time. The census data for Assam was done based on interpolation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Muslims-growth-rate-much-lower/articleshow/842896.cms|title=Muslims' growth rate much lower}}</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Demographics of India]]
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| *[[Census town]]
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| == References ==
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| ==External links==
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| *{{Official website|http://censusindia.gov.in/}}
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| {{Census of India}}
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