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{{Infobox census
| name = 1991 census of India
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| country = [[India]]
| date = {{start date|1991}}
| population = 838,583,988
| percent_change = 22.38%
| region_type = state
| most_populous = [[Uttar Pradesh]] (132,062,800)
| least_populous = [[Sikkim]] (406,000)
| previous_year = 1981
| previous_census = 1981 census of India
| next_year = 2001
| next_census = 2001 census of India
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The '''1991 census of India''' was the 13th in a series of [[census of India|censuses]] held in [[India]] every decade since [[Census of India prior to independence|1871]].<ref name="Vijayanunni">{{cite web|url=http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf|title=Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census |author=Vijayanunni, M. |date= 26–29 August 1998 |work=18th Population Census Conference |location= Honolulu, Hawaii, US | publisher= Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific |archivedate=19 November 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119080707/http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf |accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref>

The population of India was counted as 838,583,988.<ref name="Dev">{{cite book |author=Dev, Amiya |url=http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C04/E6-87-07-05.pdf |title=Comparative Literature : Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity |year=2010 |editor=Lisa Block de Behar |series=[[Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems]] |volume=2 |pages=172–183 |chapter=Literary Multilingualism II : Multilingualism in India |editor2=Paola Mildonian |editor3=Jean-Michel Djian |editor4=Djlel Kadir |editor5=Alfons Knauth |editor6=Dolores Romero Lopez |editor7=Marcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva}} Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Paris, France, [http://www.eolss.net]. Retrieved 17 December 2014.</ref> The number of enumerators was 1.6 million.<ref name="Vijayanunni"/>

==Religious demographics==
Hindus comprises 69.01 crore(81.53%) and Muslims were 10.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scroll.in/article/694975/with-current-trends-it-will-take-220-years-for-indias-muslim-population-to-equal-hindu-numbers|title=With current trends, it will take 220 years for India's Hindu population to equal Muslims numbers in the world|date=16 December 2014 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto;"
|+ Population trends for major religious groups in India (1991)
|-
! Religious group
! Population %
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! style="background:#e5bca6;"| [[Hinduism|Hindu]]
| {{percentage bar|81.53}}
|-
! style="background:#bdbf97;"| [[Islam|Muslim]]
| {{percentage bar|12.61}}
|-
! style="background:#a69a8e;"| [[Christianity|Christian]]
| {{percentage bar|2.32}}
|-
! | [[Sikhism|Sikh]]
| {{percentage bar|1.94}}
|-
! style="background:#f6e4a0;"| [[Buddhism|Buddhist]]
| {{percentage bar|0.77}}
|-
! | [[Jainism|Jain]]
| {{percentage bar|0.40}}
|-
! | [[Parsis|Parsi]]
| {{percentage bar|0.08}}
|-
! style="background:#b4a28e;"| [[Animism|Animist]], others
| {{percentage bar|0.44}}
|}
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==Language data==
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).<ref name="Census1991">{{cite web |author=Mallikarjun, B. |title=Languages of India according to 2001 Census |url=http://www.languageinindia.com/nov2001/1991Languages.html |website=Languages in India |date=7 November 2001 |accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref>
The number of [[Sanskrit]] speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/where-are-the-sanskrit-speakers/article6299433.ece|title=Where are the Sanskrit speakers?|newspaper=The Hindu |date=9 August 2014 }}</ref> 

==Other statistics==
* [[Census town]]s in 1991 census of India were 1,702.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/census-findings-point-to-decade-of-rural-distress/article2484996.ece|title=Census findings point to decade of rural distress|newspaper=The Hindu |date=25 September 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] was excluded from census-taking in 1991 due to [[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/01/09/where-are-indias-census-figures-on-religion/|title=Where Are India's 2011 Census Figures on Religion?|newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=9 January 2015 |last1=Sugden |first1=Joanna |last2=Seervai |first2=Shanoor }}</ref> The number for J&K was derived by interpolation for the population of religious communities in the state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/11/16/stories/2004111600080700.htm|title=Religion Census: A faithful count}}</ref>
* Census was not conducted in Assam in the previous census in 1981 due to [[Assam separatist movements|separatist movements]] that time. The census data for Assam was done based on interpolation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Muslims-growth-rate-much-lower/articleshow/842896.cms|title=Muslims' growth rate much lower|newspaper=The Times of India |date=7 September 2004 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Demographics of India]]
*[[Census town]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/}}

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