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Map showing the population density in India, per 2011 Census. [99] India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [100] lived in about 638,000 villages [101] and the remaining 27.8% [100] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [102]
[52] [53] For the first time, a "No religion" category was added in the 2011 census. [54] 2.87 million were classified as people belonging to "No Religion" in India in the 2011 census [55] [56] 0.24% of India's population of 1.21 billion. [57] [58] Given below is the decade-by-decade religious composition of India until the 2011 census.
Religion in India is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's culture and the Indian subcontinent is the birthplace of four of the world's major religions, namely, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which are collectively known as native Indian religions or Dharmic religions and ...
The 2001 census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. [1] The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females. [2] The total population increased by 182,310,397, 21.5% more than the 846,427,039 people counted during the 1991 census. [2]
Map showing the sex ratio of each district in India based on the 2001 census data. In the table below, the rank numbers represented by 'S' are for states while 'UT' are for union territories. The data in the table is based on the population census of 2001 and 2011.
Indian religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent. These religions, which include Buddhism , Hinduism , Jainism , and Sikhism , [ web 1 ] [ note 1 ] are also classified as Eastern religions .
The appearance of ahimsa, or the avoidance of violence toward all forms of life in many religious orders early in Indian history, especially Upanishadic Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, is thought to have contributed to the predominance of vegetarianism among a large segment of India's Hindu population, especially in southern India, Gujarat, the ...
However, there has been no particular census conducted in India regarding sects, but Indian sources like Times of India and Daily News and Analysis reported Indian Shia population in mid 2005–2006 to be up to 25% of the entire Muslim population of India which accounts them in numbers between 40,000,000 [167] [168] to 50,000,000 [169] of ...