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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.
As of 2024, with an estimated population of 1.484 billion, India is the world's most populous country. India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and is home to 17.5% of the world's population . [ 2 ] The Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not-deep alluvium and are among the most densely populated areas of the ...
[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 Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of the "Hindi Belt". [3] According to 2001 Census, 53.6% of the Indian population declared that they speak Hindi as either their first or second language, in which 41% of them have declared it as their native language.
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [21] [22] and since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
The state of Sikkim is the only state in India with a majority ethnic Nepali population. [17] The Sikkim census of 2011 found that Sikkim was the least populated state of India. Sikkim's population according to the 2011 Census was 610,577, and has grown by approximately 100,000 since the last census. [18]
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]
India is the most populated country in the world with nearly a fifth of the world's population. According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [1] [2] the population stood at 1,407,563,842. India has more than 50% of its population below the age of 25 and more than 65% below the age of 35.