| The Indian Census began in 1872 and it is the largest source of statistics on the people of India. It brings out statistics every 10 years. For scholars and researchers, the Indian Census is an interesting data source. The census is available on various subjects: Population, Economy, Finance, Literacy, Sex ratio etc. There are sub topics in each subject, which deal with specific issues of that subject. IMR Rate, Birth Rate, death Rate in Population, Workers in Various sectors, Male Workers Female Workers, etc, in Economy, Female Literacy, Male Literacy in Literacy and so on.
India is the second-most populous country in the world with an estimated 1.1 billion people in 2006.[9] Language, caste and religion are determinants of social and political organisation within the highly diverse population. Although 80.5% of the people are Hindus, India is also home to the third-largest population of Muslims in the world (13.4%), after Indonesia and Pakistan. Other religious groups include Sikhs (2%), Christians (2.04%), Buddhists (0.76%), Jains (0.40%), Jews, Zoroastrians, Ahmadi-muslims, and Bahá'ís.[9]The national average literacy rate is around 64.4%(with males-75.6% and females-54.2%). The state of Kerala leads the country with a literacy rate of approximately 94%.
India's biggest metropolitan agglomerations are Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Delhi, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Chennai (formerly Madras) and Bangalore. The national sex ratio is 933 females per 1,000 males and median age is 24.66. India's population growth rate is 22.32 births per 1,000.[9] The total fertility rate (TFR) for India is above the world average, however the growth rate is showing signs of decrease in the South India.
India is home to two major linguistic families: Indo-Aryan (spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%). Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman linguistic families. The Indian constitution recognises 23 official languages.[10] Hindi and English are used by the Union Government of India for official purposes, wherein Hindi has a de jure priority. Two classical languages native to the land are Sanskrit and Tamil. The number of dialects in India is as high as 1,652
The most recent census of India was performed in 2001. It was the 14th census in an unbroken series, and the 6th after independence in 1947 (except for Assam which did not figure in the 1981 census). Eight censuses were performed under the British Raj, the first one was carried out throughout the 1860s and completed in 1871. After this, there has been one census every decade.
The 2001 census was conducted in two phases, the first being Housenumbering and Houselisting operations, carried out in May 2000, and the second being population enumeration, carried out from February 9 to 28, 2001. The reference time for the census is 1 March, 2001. The houseless population was enumerated on 28 February. A revisional round was undertaken 1 to 5 March 2001 to account for mutations between the time of visit in February and 1 March.
The total population calculated for 1 March 2001 was 1,027,015,247, making the 2001 census the first to count more than a billion Indians. The population had risen by 21.34% compared to the 1991 total. The female population had increased by 0.3 percentage points to 46.6%. Please click the links below for information on indian population, literacy in india and other demographic facts about India : |