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The 1961 census recognized 1,652 mother tongues, counting all declarations made by any individual at the time when the census was conducted. [2] However, the declaring individuals often mixed names of languages with those of dialects, sub-dialects and dialect clusters or even castes, professions, religions, localities, regions, countries and nationalities. [2]
The population of India was counted as 361,088,090 (1000:946 male:female) [4] Total population increased by 42,427,510, 13.31% more than the 318,660,580 people counted during the 1941 census. [5] No census was done for Jammu and Kashmir in 1951 and its figures were interpolated from 1941 and 1961 state census. [ 6 ]
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 ]
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In the 1961 census, 58 people stated that their mother tongue was Turkish. [1] According to the 1911 census, 1778 residents of India stated their place of birth as Turkey. [ 2 ] In a state visit during early 2010, Prime Minister Abdullah Gül of Turkey met Turkish expatriates living in India and handed out Hindi-Turkish dictionaries to Turkish ...
[17] [18] In 2017 its population growth rate was 0.98%, ranking 112th in the world; in contrast, from 1972 to 1983, India's population grew by an annual rate of 2.3%. [ 19 ] In 2023, the median age of an Indian was 29.5 years, [ 20 ] compared to 39.8 for China and 49.5 for Japan; and, by 2030; India's dependency ratio will be just over 0.4. [ 21 ]
The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India currently do not consider caste as a significant factor due to policy for the Census of India, except for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. As a consequence, comprehensive and up-to-date information regarding the caste composition of the population is currently unavailable.
Population density map of India. India is a union of twenty-eight states and eight union territories. [1] As of 2011, with an estimated population of 1.210 billion, India occupies 2.4 percent of the world's land surface area but is home to 17.5 percent of the world's population. [2]