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India has 641,000 inhabited villages and 72.2 percent of the total population reside in these rural areas. [8] Of them 145,000 villages have population size of 500–999 persons; 130,000 villages have population size of 1000–1999 and 128,000 villages have population size of 200–499.
India has 641,000 inhabited villages and 72.2 percent of the total population reside in these rural areas. [6] Of them, 145,000 villages have a population size of 500–999 persons; 130,000 villages have a population size of 1000–1999 and 128,000 villages have a population size of 200–499.
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 [ 50 ] lived in about 638,000 villages [ 51 ] and the remaining 27.8% [ 50 ] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations .
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.
PRIs in rural areas have 3 hierarchies of panchayats, Gram panchayats at village level, Panchayat Samiti at block level, and Zilla panchayats at district level. [4] Panchayats cover about 96% of India's more than 5.8 lakh (580,000) villages and nearly 99.6% of the rural population.
RBI defines rural areas as those areas with a population of less than 49,000 (tier -3 to tier-6 cities). [11] It is generally said that the rural areas house up to 70% of India's population. Rural India contributes a large chunk to India's GDP by way of agriculture, self-employment, services, construction etc.
The following tables list the population details of various states. The columns include the hierarchical administrative subdivision codes , [ 8 ] the district name, district headquarters, 2011 census population, [ 9 ] area in square kilometres, and the population density per square kilometre.
5.4% of rural India has completed high school. 3.4% of rural households have a family member who is a graduate. [64] 4.6% of all rural households in India pay income tax. 14% of rural households are employed either with the government or the private sector. 180,657 households are engaged in manual scavenging for a livelihood. Maharashtra, with ...