1991 census of India

1991 census of India

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General information
CountryIndia
Results
Total population838,583,988 (22.38%)
Most populous stateUttar Pradesh (132,062,800)
Least populous stateSikkim (406,000)

The 1991 census of India was the 13th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.[1]

The population of India was counted as 838,583,988.[2] The number of enumerators was 1.6 million.[1]

Religious demographics

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Hindus comprises 69.01 crore(81.53%) and Muslims were 10.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census.[3]

Population trends for major religious groups in India (1991)
Religious group Population  %
Hindu
81.53%
Muslim
12.61%
Christian
2.32%
Sikh
1.94%
Buddhist
0.77%
Jain
0.40%
Parsi
0.08%
Animist, others
0.44%

Language data

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The 1991 census recognizes 1,576 classified "mother tongues". According to the 1991 census, 22 languages had more than a million native speakers, 50 had more than 100,000 and 114 had more than 10,000 native speakers. The remaining accounted for a total of 566,000 native speakers (out of a total of 838 million Indians in 1991).[4] The number of Sanskrit speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.[5]

Other statistics

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Vijayanunni, M. (26–29 August 1998). "Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census" (PDF). 18th Population Census Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii, US: Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  2. ^ Dev, Amiya (2010). "Literary Multilingualism II : Multilingualism in India". In Lisa Block de Behar; Paola Mildonian; Jean-Michel Djian; Djlel Kadir; Alfons Knauth; Dolores Romero Lopez; Marcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva (eds.). Comparative Literature : Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity (PDF). Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. Vol. 2. pp. 172–183. Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Paris, France, [1]. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  3. ^ "With current trends, it will take 220 years for India's Hindu population to equal Muslims numbers in the world". 16 December 2014.
  4. ^ Mallikarjun, B. (7 November 2001). "Languages of India according to 2001 Census". Languages in India. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  5. ^ "Where are the Sanskrit speakers?". The Hindu. 9 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Census findings point to decade of rural distress". The Hindu. 25 September 2011.
  7. ^ Sugden, Joanna; Seervai, Shanoor (9 January 2015). "Where Are India's 2011 Census Figures on Religion?". Wall Street Journal.
  8. ^ "Religion Census: A faithful count".
  9. ^ "Muslims' growth rate much lower". The Times of India. 7 September 2004.
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