Census of India 2011

 Census of India 2011

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India has been conducting a sincere statistical census since the year 1882. The ministerial workforce provides a quality census on population and house listing every ten years. The Information of National Population Register includes these census reports necessary for proper storage and analysis.

Since 1951, all censuses have been conducted under the Government of India Act 1948. The responsibility of drafting the census lies with the General Registrar and the Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The year 2011 witnessed the first biometric census in India. In fact, the 2011 census is the recent census of India (the next will be conducted in the year 2021). 2011 features the 15th census report of the country.

This article discusses the different parameters of the recent Indian census and furnishes an authentic tabulation of this data.

Census Report

Population
Males	Females	Total
623,724,568	586,469,294	1,210,854,977
Literacy
82.10%	65.46%	74%
Density of population	per km2	382
Sex ratio	per 1000 males	940 females
Child sex ratio (0–6 age group)	per 1000 males	914 females

 

State/ Union Territories Wise Census Report

S.No.	State/Union Territories	Males	Females	Total
1	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	2,02,330	1,77,614	3,79,944
2	Andhra Pradesh	4,25,09,881	4,21,55,652	8,46,65,533
3	Arunachal Pradesh	7,20,232	6,62,379	13,82,611
4	Assam	1,59,54,927	1,52,14,345	3,11,69,272
5	Bihar	5,41,85,347	4,96,19,290	10,38,04,637
6	Chandigarh	5,80,282	4,74,404	10,54,686
7	Chhattisgarh	1,28,27,915	1,27,12,281	2,55,40,196
8	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	1,93,178	1,49,675	3,42,853
9	Daman & Diu	1,50,100	92,811	2,42,911
10	Goa	7,40,711	7,17,012	14,57,723
11	Gujarat	3,14,82,282	2,89,01,346	6,03,83,628
12	Haryana	1,35,05,130	1,18,47,951	2,53,53,081
13	Himachal Pradesh	34,73,892	33,82,617	68,56,509
14	Jammu & Kashmir	66,65,561	58,83,365	1,25,48,926
15	Jharkhand	1,69,31,688	1,60,34,550	3,29,66,238
16	Karnataka	3,10,57,742	3,00,72,962	6,11,30,704
17	Kerala	1,60,21,290	1,73,66,387	3,33,87,677
18	Lakshadweep	33,106	31,323	64,429
19	Madhya Pradesh	3,76,12,920	3,49,84,645	7,25,97,565
20	Maharashtra	5,83,61,397	5,40,11,575	11,23,72,972
21	Manipur	13,69,764	13,51,992	27,21,756
22	Meghalaya	14,92,668	14,71,339	29,64,007
23	Mizoram	5,52,339	5,38,675	10,91,014
24	Nagaland	10,25,707	9,54,895	19,80,602
25	NCT of Delhi	89,76,410	77,76,825	1,67,53,235
26	Orissa	2,12,01,678	2,07,45,680	4,19,47,358
27	Puducherry	6,10,485	6,33,979	12,44,464
28	Punjab	1,46,34,819	1,30,69,417	2,77,04,236
29	Rajasthan	3,56,20,086	3,30,00,926	6,86,21,012
30	Sikkim	3,21,661	2,86,027	6,07,688
31	Tamil Nadu	3,61,58,871	3,59,80,087	7,21,38,958
32	Tripura	18,71,867	17,99,165	36,71,032
33	Uttar Pradesh	10,45,96,415	9,49,85,062	19,95,81,477
34	Uttarakhand	51,54,178	49,62,574	1,01,16,752
35	West Bengal	4,69,27,389	4,44,20,347	9,13,47,736

 

• Moreover, the Sex Ratio of India is 108.176, i.e., 108.176 males per 100 females in 2020.
• In rural areas, there are 949 females to 1000 men, while in urban areas there are 929 females to 1000 males.
• Rural India has 21,813,264 more males and urban India has 13,872,275 more males than females.
• As of 2020, India has more males than females until the 64-69 age group and there are 10 more males per 100 females until the 34-69 age group.
• Above 25-29 age, the female population keeps improving and there are almost double the number of women than men above 100 years.
• Kerala has the highest sex ratio of 1084 females to 1000 males
• Haryana has the lowest sex ratio of 879 females per 1000 males.
• Among union territories, Puducherry has the highest sex ratio of 1037 and Daman & Diu has the lowest sex ratio of 618.

State/Union Territories Wise Population Density Census Report

STATES	Population Density	People per square km
Andhra Pradesh	277	308
Arunachal Pradesh	13	17
Assam	340	397
Bihar	881	1,102
Chhattisgarh	154	189
Goa	364	394
Gujarat	258	308
Haryana	478	573
Himachal Pradesh	109	123
Jammu & Kashmir	100	124
Jharkhand	338	414
Karnataka	276	319

 

STATES	Population Density	People per square km
Andhra Pradesh	277	308
Arunachal Pradesh	13	17
Assam	340	397
Bihar	881	1,102
Chhattisgarh	154	189
Goa	364	394
Gujarat	258	308
Haryana	478	573
Himachal Pradesh	109	123
Jammu & Kashmir	100	124
Jharkhand	338	414
Karnataka	276	319
Kerala	819	859
Madhya Pradesh	196	236
Maharashtra	315	365
Manipur	97	122
Meghalaya	103	132
Mizoram	42	52
Nagaland	120	119
Odisha	236	269
Punjab	484	550
Rajasthan	165	201
Sikkim	76	86
Tamil Nadu	480	555
Tripura	305	350
Uttar Pradesh	690	828
Uttarakhand	159	189
West Bengal	903	1,029
UNION TERRITORIES
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	43	46
Chandigarh	7,900	9,252
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	449	698
Daman & Diu	1,413	2,169
Delhi	9,340	11,297
Lakshadweep	1,895	2,013
Puducherry	2,034	2,598

 

Language Census Report

Language	Percentage of Total Speakers
Bengali	8.90
English	10.60
Gujarati	5.00
Hindi	57.10
Kannada	4.94
Malayalam	3.28
Marathi	8.20
Odia	3.56
Punjabi	3.56
Sanskrit	0.49
Tamil	6.30
Telugu	7.80
Urdu	5.20

 

• Hindi is the most widely spoken language in northern and western parts of India. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of “Hindi” as a broad variety of “Hindi languages”.
• According to the 2011 Census, 57.1% of the Indian population knows Hindi, in which 43.63% of Indian people have declared Hindi as their native language or mother tongue.
• The language data was released on 26 June 2018.
• Bhili was the most spoken unscheduled language with 10.4 million speakers, followed by Gondi with 2.9 million speakers.
• 96.71% of India’s population speaks one of the 22 scheduled languages as their mother tongue in the 2011 census.

Religions Census Report

Religious group	Population % 2011
Adivasi	0.9%
Buddhism	0.70%
Christianity	2.30%
Hinduism	79.80%
Islam	14.23%
Jainism	0.37%
Sikhism	1.72%
Zoroastrianism	n/a

 

• Hindu Population Growth rate slowed down to 16.76 % from the previous decade figure of 19.92% while Muslims witness a sharp fall in growth rate to 24.60% (2001-2011) from the previous figure of 29.52 % (1991-2001).
• Such a sharp fall in population growth rate for Muslims didn’t happen in the last 6 decades. Christian Population growth was at 15.5% while the Sikh population growth rate stood at 8.4%.
• The most educated and wealthy community of Jains registered the least growth rate in 2001-2011 with a figure of just 5.4%.
• The Growth rate of Hindus, Muslims, and Christian is expected to fall more in the upcoming 2021 census while other religions like Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism are expected to remain stable for the next 2 decades considering the already slowed down growth rate of these religions.

Literacy Census Report

Year	Total Population (in %)	Males (in %)	Females (in %)	Gap in Literacy (in %)
2011	74.0	82.1	65.5	16.6

 

• Anyone above age 7 who can read and write in any language with an ability to understand was considered literate.
• The literacy rate taking the entire population into account is termed as “the crude literacy rate”, and taking the population from age 7 and above into account is termed as “the effective literacy rate”.
• Effective literacy rate increased to a total of 74.04% with 82.14% of the males and 65.46% of the females being literate

State/Union Territories Wise Literacy Census Report

S.N.	State/ Union Territory	Literacy Rate in % (Person)	Male Literacy Rate in %	Female Literacy Rate in %
1.	Kerala	94.0	96.1	92.1
2.	Lakshadweep	91.8	95.6	87.9
3.	Mizoram	91.3	93.3	89.3
4.	Goa	88.7	92.6	84.7
5.	Tripura	87.2	91.5	82.7
6.	Daman & Diu	87.1	91.5	79.5
7.	Andaman & Nicobar Island	86.6	90.3	82.4
8.	NCT of Delhi	86.2	90.9	80.8
9.	Chandigarh	86.0	90.0	81.2
10.	Puducherry	85.8	91.3	80.7
11.	Himachal Pradesh	82.8	89.5	75.9
12.	Maharashtra	82.3	88.4	75.9
13.	Sikkim	81.4	86.6	75.6
14.	Tamil Nadu	80.1	86.8	73.4
15.	Nagaland	79.6	82.8	76.1
16.	Manipur	79.2	86.1	72.4
17.	Uttrakhand	78.8	87.4	70.0
18.	Gujarat	78.0	85.8	69.7
19.	West Bengal	76.3	81.7	70.5
20.	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	76.2	85.2	64.3
21.	Punjab	75.8	80.4	70.7
22.	Haryana	75.6	84.1	65.9
23.	Karnataka	75.4	82.5	68.1
24.	Meghalaya	74.4	76.0	72.9
25.	Odisha	72.9	81.6	64.0
26.	Assam	72.2	77.8	66.3
27.	Chhattisgarh	70.3	80.3	60.2
28.	Madhya Pradesh	69.3	78.7	59.2
29.	Uttar Pradesh	67.7	77.3	57.2
30.	Jammu & Kashmir	67.2	76.8	56.4
31.	Andhra Pradesh	67.0	74.9	59.1
32.	Jharkhand	66.4	76.8	55.4
33.	Rajasthan	66.1	79.2	52.1
34.	Arunachal Pradesh	65.4	72.6	57.7
35.	Bihar	61.8	71.2	51.6

 

• India’s literacy rate is 74.04%. Kerala is the most literate state in India, with 93.91% literacy.
• Bihar is the least literate state in India, with a literacy of 63.82%.