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Indian states ranking by household size
This is a list of the States of India ranked in order of average number of persons in a family. This information was compiled from NFHS-3. National Family health survey (NFHS) is a large-scale, multi round survey conducted by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai designated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government of India. NFHS-3 was released on 11 Oct 2007 and the detailed survey can be viewed in the following website [1] The average household size of India is 4.8. The lowest is 3.5 in Tamil Nadu and the highest is 5.7 in Uttar Pradesh. India has more than 27 crore households.
| Rank | State | Household
size (persons) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamil Nadu | 3.5 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 3.9 |
| 3 | Goa | 4.2 |
| 4 | Kerala | 4.3 |
| 5 | Tripura | 4.3 |
| 6 | West Bengal | 4.5 |
| 7 | Odisha | 4.5 |
| 8 | Sikkim | 4.5 |
| 9 | Nagaland | 4.5 |
| 10 | Himachal Pradesh | 4.6 |
| 11 | Karnataka | 4.6 |
| 12 | Assam | 4.7 |
| 13 | Gujarat | 4.7 |
| 14 | Maharashtra | 4.7 |
| 15 | Arunachal Pradesh | 4.8 |
| 16 | Mizoram | 4.8 |
| 17 | India average | 4.8 |
| 18 | Chhattisgarh | N⁄A |
| 19 | Madhya Pradesh | 5 |
| 20 | Uttarakhand | 5 |
| 21 | Manipur | 5 |
| 22 | Meghalaya | 5.1 |
| 23 | Punjab | 5.2 |
| 24 | Rajasthan | 5.5 |
| 25 | Haryana | 5.3 |
| 26 | Bihar | 5.4 |
| 27 | Jharkhand | 5.4 |
| 28 | Jammu and Kashmir | 5.7 |
| 29 | Uttar Pradesh | 5.7 |
Indian households with number of members: [2][edit]
| Total/ Rural/ Urban | Normal Households | Household Size | ||||||||||
| Number | Population | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7-10 | 11-14 | 15+ | Mean Household Size | |
| TOTAL | 192,671,808 | 1,018,865,868 | 7,564,196 | 15,871,465 | 22,472,551 | 37,022,159 | 35,873,420 | 26,147,067 | 40,876,110 | 4,547,141 | 2,297,699 | 5 |
| RURAL | 137,235,518 | 737,283,492 | 5,447,972 | 11,488,543 | 15,158,542 | 24,539,403 | 25,201,835 | 19,218,618 | 31,005,414 | 3,447,071 | 1,728,120 | 5 |
| URBAN | 55,436,290 | 281,582,376 | 2,116,224 | 4,382,922 | 7,314,009 | 12,482,756 | 10,671,585 | 6,928,449 | 9,870,696 | 1,100,070 | 569,579 | 5 |
References[edit]
- ↑ IIPS/India, International Institute for Population Sciences -; International, Macro (2007-01-01). "India National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) 2005-06".
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