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Map showing the population density in India, per 2011 Census. [47] 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 [48] lived in about 638,000 villages [49] and the remaining 27.8% [48] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [50]
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 ...
It found that between 1950 and 2015, India’s Hindu population declined by 7.82%, while the Muslim population increased by 43.15% at the same time. Currently, ...
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.
Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the strongest fall in poverty ...
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.
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 ]