Template:Infobox census The 2001 Census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.[1]
The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females.[2] Total population increased by 182,310,397, 21.5% more than the 846,427,039 people counted during the 1991 census.[2]
Religious demographics
Hindus comprise 82.75 crore (80.45%) and Muslims were 13.8 crore (13.4%) in 2001 census.[3][4] Census 2001 showed 108 faiths under the head "Other Religions and Persuasion" (ORP) in India.[5] 700,000 people did not state their religion.[6]
| Religious group |
Population % 2001 |
|---|---|
| Hindu | 80.45% |
| Muslim | 13.4% |
| Christian | 2.34% |
| Sikh | 1.89% |
| Buddhist | 0.74% |
| Animist, others | 0.43% |
| Jain | 0.46% |
Language demographics
Template:Main Hindi is the most widely spoken language in northern parts of India. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of "Hindi languages". According to 2001 Census, 53.6% of Indian population know Hindi, in which 41% of them have declared Hindi as their native language or mother tongue.[7][8][9] English is known to 12.18% Indians in the 2001 census. The number of bilingual speakers in India is 25.50 crore, which is 24.8% of the population in 2001.[10] India (780) has the world's second highest number of languages, after Papua New Guinea (839).[11]
| Language | First language speakers[12][13] |
First language speakers as a percentage of total population[14] |
Second language speakers[13] |
Third language speakers[13] |
Total speakers[15][13] | Total speakers as a percentage of total population[14] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 422,048,642 | 41.03 | 98,207,180 | 31,160,696 | 551,416,518 | 53.60 |
| English | 226,449 | 0.02 | 86,125,221 | 38,993,066 | 125,344,736 | 12.18 |
| Bengali | 83,369,769 | 8.10 | 6,637,222 | 1,108,088 | 91,115,079 | 8.86 |
| Telugu | 74,002,856 | 7.19 | 9,723,626 | 1,266,019 | 84,992,501 | 8.26 |
| Marathi | 71,936,894 | 6.99 | 9,546,414 | 2,701,498 | 84,184,806 | 8.18 |
| Tamil | 60,793,814 | 5.91 | 4,992,253 | 956,335 | 66,742,402 | 6.49 |
| Urdu | 51,536,111 | 5.01 | 6,535,489 | 1,007,912 | 59,079,512 | 5.74 |
| Kannada | 37,924,011 | 3.69 | 11,455,287 | 1,396,428 | 50,775,726 | 4.94 |
| Gujarati | 46,091,617 | 4.48 | 3,476,355 | 703,989 | 50,271,961 | 4.89 |
| Odia | 33,017,446 | 3.21 | 3,272,151 | 319,525 | 36,609,122 | 3.56 |
| Malayalam | 33,066,392 | 3.21 | 499,188 | 195,885 | 33,761,465 | 3.28 |
| Sanskrit | 14,135 | <0.01 | 1,234,931 | 3,742,223 | 4,991,289 | 0.49 |
Graphical summaries
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Overview of 2001 population, separated by gender and age bracket. -
2001 overview based on religious affiliation and language.
See also
References
- ↑ Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census. Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific(26–29 August 1998). Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Home/Census Data 2001/India at a glance. Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India, Ministry of Home Affairs. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
- ↑ Census: Hindu share dips below 80%, Muslim share grows but slower(24 January 2015).
- ↑ With current trends, it will take 220 years for India's Muslim population to equal Hindu numbers, D’Souza, Dilip. Scroll.in.
- ↑ Fewer minor faiths in India now, finds Census; number of their adherents up(1 August 2016).
- ↑ Indian rationalism, Charvaka to Narendra Dabholkar(21 August 2018).
- ↑ These four charts break down India’s complex relationship with Hindi, D, John Samuel Raja. Quartz.
- ↑ Nearly 60% of Indians speak a language other than Hindi | India News – Times of India. The Times of India.
- ↑ Census of India: Comparative speaker's strength of Scheduled Languages-1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. www.censusindia.gov.in.
- ↑ Hindi migrants speaking Marathi rise to 60 lakh | Mumbai News – Times of India. The Times of India.
- ↑ Seven decades after Independence, many small languages in India face extinction threat, Seetharaman, G..
- ↑ Census of India: Comparative speaker's strength of Scheduled Languages-1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001, ORGI.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Sanskrit and English: there's no competition, S, Rukmini.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Census of India : India at a glance / Population. www.censusindia.gov.in.
- ↑ Indiaspeak: English is our 2nd language.