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Punjabi is the sole official language of Punjab and is spoken by the majority of the population numbering around 24,919,067 constituting (89.82%) of the population as of 2011 census report. Hindi is the second largest language, spoken by 2,177,853 constituting 7.85% of the population. And the remaining 646,418 spoke other Indian languages ...
According to the 2017 Census, there are about 200,000 Hindus in Punjab province, forming approximately 0.2% of the total population. [39] Much of the community resides in the primarily rural South Punjab districts of Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalpur where they form 3.12% and 1.12% of the population respectively, [ 40 ] [ 41 ] while the rest are ...
The five states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh account for almost half (47.90 percent) of the total Indian population. [ 7 ] While the national average for the sex ratio shows an increase from 933 in 2001 to 940 in 2011, [ 7 ] the 2011 census shows a sharp decline in the child sex ratio , the number of ...
The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of "Hindi languages". [71] According to 2011 census, 57.1% of Indian population know Hindi, [72] in which 43.63% of Indian people have declared Hindi as their native language or mother tongue. [73] [74] The language data was released on 26 June 2018. [75]
According to the NFHS-4 (2015–16) sex ratio of the total population (females per 1,000 males) was 991 (with an urban ratio of 956 and a rural ratio of 1,009). [4] In 2011–2013, it was revealed through a population census with the Sample Registration System (SRS) that the sex ratio of India was 909 females per 1000 of males. [7]
As of 2011 census, women constitute 47.23% of total population of Punjab, as compared to 48.5% at the national level. In the same year, the sex ratio of Punjab was 895, which was lower than the national average of 943. As of 2011, the child sex ratio of children between the ages of 0 and 6 years was 846, which was lower than the national ...
The Punjabi-speaking people make up 2.74% of India's population as of 2011. [57] The total number of Indian Punjabis is unknown due to the fact that ethnicity is not recorded in the Census of India. Sikhs are largely concentrated in the modern-day state of Punjab forming 57.7% of the population with Hindus forming 38.5%. [58]
The data is taken from the 2001 census, which excludes the following groups: portions of the nomadic Hindu population, Hindu refugees of the Lhotsam ethnic group from Bhutan, those of Tamil ethnic group from Sri Lanka, those from Bangladesh and Nepal, some members of this religion from Burma and Pakistan residing in India and a portion of Hindu citizens working abroad.