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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.
Census in Urban areas is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. Caste Census is under the administrative control of Ministry of Home Affairs: Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. SECC data 2011 has been referred for analysis by an expert group, headed by NITI Aayog Vice ...
All the censuses since 1951 were conducted under the 1948 Census of India Act, which predates the Constitution of India. [2] The 1948 Census of India Act does not bind the Union Government to conduct the census on a particular date or to release its data in a notified period. The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next was to be held in ...
Summary by Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India; literacy rates as % of population. [4] [a] [b] State/UT 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011; A&N islands: 30.30 40.07 51.15 63.19 73.02 81.30 86.63 Andhra Pradesh - 21.19 24.57 35.66 44.08 60.47 67.02 Arunachal Pradesh - 7.13 11.29 ...
Census of India (2011) states the following criteria in defining towns. They are: Statutory Town (ST): All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board, or notified town area committee, etc. Census Town (CT): Those which have a population greater than 5000. Other definitions include percentage of non-agriculture working population ...
The 2021 census is the first census to ever be postponed in India since its beginning under the British in 1872. Even during the Second World War , the census of India was held in 1941 as scheduled, even if the tabulations of the results of the 1941 census were incomplete compared to the detailed reports published after the 1931 census.
This is a list of the States of India ranked in order of percentage of households having a television set. On March 13, 2012, the Ministry of Home Affairs of the government of India released comprehensive data under "Houselisting and Housing Census" which was collected as part of the Decennial Census exercise conducted in 2011. [1]
Following is the list of urban agglomerations in India with a population of more than one million as per the 2011 census. As per the 2011 census, there were 52 (according to provisional census results, 53 [8]) urban agglomerations or cities with population of one million and above. [9] [a] [8]