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Under the Mughal Empire, India experienced a high economic and demographic upsurge, [31] due to Mughal agrarian reforms that intensified agricultural production. [32] 15% of the population lived in urban centres, higher than the percentage of the population in 19th-century British India [33] and contemporary Europe [33] up until the 19th ...
India is a union consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. [1] As of 2022, with an estimated population of 1.4 billion, India is the world's most populous country. India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and is home to 17.5% of the world's population. [2] The Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not ...
The International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) is a training and research organization based in Govandi, Mumbai. [1] It focuses on population studies for the ESCAP region and operates under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. [2][3] IIPS is responsible to conduct key studies including the National Family ...
Population and Development Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Population Council. It was established in 1975 and the journal is co-edited by Raya Muttarak and Joshua Wilde. The journal covers population studies, the relationships between population and economic, environmental, and ...
Next census of India. The 2025 census of India, or the 16th Indian census, is to be conducted in two phases, a house listing phase and a population enumeration phase. Although initially the house listing was to begin in April 2020 along with the updating of the National Population Register, and the population enumeration on 9 February 2021, [1 ...
The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005[1] is a nationally representative, multi-topic survey of 41,554 households in 1,503 villages and 971 urban neighborhoods across India. Two one-hour interviews in each household covered topics concerning health, education, employment, economic status, marriage, fertility, gender relations, and ...
Census of India. The decennial census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011. While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under Viceroy Lord Mayo, the first complete census was taken in 1872. [1] Post 1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home ...
The population of India as per 2011 census was 1,210,854,977. [31] India added 181.5 million to its population since 2001, slightly lower than the population of Brazil. India, with 2.4% of the world's surface area, accounts for 17.5% of its population. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state with roughly 200 million people.