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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 world.
The 2024 census of India, or the 16th Indian census, is to be conducted in two phases, a house listing phase and a population enumeration phase.Although initially the house listing was to begin in April 2020 along with the updating of the National Population Register, and the population enumeration on 9 February 2021, [1] they have been continuously postponed.
[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 following is a list of the top 50 Metropolitan areas in India by their Nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and their contribution as % to their respective states. This list is based on Nominal GDP (Not to be confused with PPP).To Convert Nominal GDP to PPP use below formula. (Nominal GDP in INR)÷20.65 [1] [2]
according to the United Nations, India now has more people than China, an epochal shift in global demographics that happened sometime in late April. How India’s population exploded to overtake ...
The 2025 census of India, or the 16th Indian census, is to be conducted in two phases, a house listing phase and a population enumeration phase.Although initially the house listing was to begin in April 2020 along with the updating of the National Population Register, and the population enumeration on 9 February 2021, [1] they have been continuously postponed.
One in every five people in India will be elderly citizens by 2050, UN report says
The Scheduled Caste population of the state represented 21.3% of the total population, a figure higher than the state average of 21.15%. [157] [158] Hindi is spoken by 88.16% of the population, while Urdu is spoken by 10.26%. [159] The sex ratio in Lucknow city stood at 915 females per 1000 males in 2011, compared to the 2001 census figure of 888.