Census 2011: Indian population increased by 181 million

[Dalai Lama]

Well, at least the birth rate has gone down from 2.1% to 1.7%.

 

[tallboy123]

This is not a big acheivement...We need to control more and more...

 

[Spring Onion]

India’s population is now pegged at 1.21 billion, an increase of more than 181 million in the last 10 years, according to the provisional 2011 Census report released on Thursday.

The population comprising 623.7 million males and 586.5 million females is almost equal to the combined population of the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Japan put together.

The population has increased by more than 181 million during the decade 2001-2011, the report said. The growth rate in 2011 is 17.64 per cent in comparison to 21.15 per cent in 2001.

The 2001-2011 period is the first decade — with exception of 1911-1921 — which has actually added lesser population compared to the previous decade, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner of India C. Chandramauli said in the presence of Home Secretary G. K. Pillai.

Uttar Pradesh most populous state

Among the states and Union territories, Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state with 199 million people and Lakshadweep the least populated at 64,429.

The combined population of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra is bigger than that of the U.S.

The highest population density is in Delhi’s northeast district (37,346 per sq km) while the lowest is in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh (just one per sq km).

Child sex ratio in 2011 is 914 female against 1,000 male — the lowest since Independence.

According to the data, literates constitute 74 per cent of the total population aged seven and above and illiterates form 26 per cent. The literacy rate has gone up from 64.83 per cent in 2001 to 74.04 per cent in 2011 showing an increase of 9.21 per cent.

Interestingly, the addition of 181 million population during 2001-2011 is slightly lower than the total population of Brazil, the fifth most populous country in the world.

While China has 19.4 per cent of the world’s total population, India has 17.5 per cent of the world population.

Sharp decline in growth rate

However, the percentage decadal growth during 2001-2011 has registered the sharpest decline since Independence — a decrease of 3.90 percentage points from 21.54 to 17.64 per cent.

Apart from Uttar Pradesh, other most populous states are — Maharashtra (112.3 million), Bihar (103.8 million), West Bengal (91.3 million) and Andhra Pradesh (84.6 million).

Besides Lakshadweep, smallest UTs and states are — Daman and Diu (2,42,911), Dadra and Nagar Haveli (3,42,853), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (7,79,944) and Sikkim (6,07,688).

The percentage decadal growth rates of the six most populous states have declined during 2001-2011 compared to 1991-2001. Uttar Pradesh (25.85 per cent to 20.09 per cent), Maharashtra (22.73 per cent to 15.99 per cent), Bihar (28.62 per cent to 25.07 per cent), West Bengal (17.77 per cent to 13.93 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (14.59 per cent to 11.10 per cent and Madhya Pradesh (24.26 per cent to 20.23 per cent).

“For the first time, there is a significant fall in the growth rate of population in the Empowered Action Group states after decades of stagnation,” Mr. Chandramouli said. The EAG states are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa.

158.8 million children

The total number of children in the age group of 0-6 is 158.8 million — five million less since 2001.

Twenty states and Union Territories now have over one million children in the age group of 0-6 years. On the other extreme, there are five states and UTs that are yet to reach the 100,000 mark.

Uttar Pradesh (29.7 million), Bihar (18.6 million), Maharashtra (12.8 million), Madhya Pradesh (10.5 million) and Rajasthan (10.5 million) constitute 52 per cent children in the age group of 0-6 years.

The child sex ratio (0-6 years) in Harayan and Punjab is lowest among all states. Haryana has 830 female children and Punjab 846 against per 1000 male child.

The highest child sex ratio is in Mizoram (971 females against 1000 males) and Meghalaya (970). aryana’s Jhajjar (774 females) and Mahendragarh (778 females) districts have the lowest sex ratio while Lahul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh has the highest sex ratio (1,013 female).

Sex-ratio at national level increases

However, the overall sex ratio at the national level has increased by seven points since the 2001 Census to reach 940 females per 1000 male at Census 2011.

This is the highest sex ratio recorded since 1971 and a shade lower than 1961. Increase in sex ratio is recorded in 29 states and Union Territories while three major states — Bihar, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir —have shown decline in sex ratio as compared to census 2001.

Increase in literacy rate

During 2001-2011, literacy rate of males is 82.14 per cent and females is 65.46 per cent. In 2001, the male literacy rate was 75.26 per cent and female 53.67 per cent.

Ten states and UTs viz. Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Tripura, Goa, Daman and Diu, Puducherry, Chandigarh, NCT of Delhi and Andaman and Nicobar Islands have achieved literacy rate of above 85 per cent, the target set by the Planning Commission to be achieved by 2011-12.

The gap of 21.59 percentage points recorded between male and female literacy rates in 2001 census has reduced to 16.68 percentage points in 2011. Planning Commission has set up target of reducing this gap to 10 percentage points by 2011-12.

Among the states and UTs, literacy rate in Kerala is highest - 93.91 per cent, followed by Lakshadweep (92.28 per cent) while lowest is in Bihar (63.82 per cent) followed by Arunachal Pradesh (66.95 per cent).

Mizoram’s two districts — Serchhip (98.76 per cent) and Aizawl (98.50 per cent) have recorded highest literacy rates while Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district (37.22 per cent) and Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district (41.58 per cent) recorded lowest literacy rates.

Highest population density in Delhi

The density of population in 2011 is 382 persons in per sq km in comparison to 325 in 2001. National capital Delhi (11,297) has the highest density of population followed by Union Territory Chandigarh (9,252) in per sq km while Arunachal Pradesh (17) and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (46) have the lowest density of population.

Final data in 2012

Mr. Chandramouli said post-enumeration summary will be started soon and the final data is expected to be available next year and any error can be detected only then. There was a 2 per cent error in the 2001 Census report.

The provisional population report is arrived at by adding the population as reported by each enumerator for enumeration block assigned to him/her.

“There could be errors in addition or there could be cases of ommission/ duplication of enumerator blocks in the provisional report. The final population will be arrived at by scanning of schedules, data processing and other checks,” Mr. Chandramouli said.

The Census 2011 is the 15th census of India since 1872 and conducted in two phases — houselisting and housing census (April to September 2010) and population enumeration (February 9 to 28, 2011).

The Census covered all 35 states and UTs and cost Rs. 2,200 crore. 27 lakh enumerators were involved in the exercise where 8,000 metric tonnes of paper and 10,500 metric tonnes of material moved.

 

[Kadamba]

No way they are understated IMO.

Rather there is a chance of overcounting because even in my case I am currently living in Mumbai and I was counted here also and later I found that even my parents had given my name in my hometown also.

Similar kind of Double Counting happened in my case as well,

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

New Delhi: India now has a population of 1.21 billion according to the latest Census figures released by the Home Secretary and the Registrar General of India on Thursday. This is an increase of 181 million people since the last Census - nearly equivalent to the population of Brazil.

India's population is now bigger than the combined population of USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh, says the Census report. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state and the combined population of UP and Maharashtra is bigger than USA.

Of the total population, 623.7 million are males and 586.5 million are females.

However, the population grew at a rate of 17.64 percent which is the sharpest reduction in growth rate ever.


While Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Puducherry has the highest population growth rate of about 55 percent, Nagaland has the lowest.

The density of population is highest in Delhi, followed by Chandigarh.

The 2011 Census report also shows that India now has a child sex ratio of 914 female against 1,000 male - the lowest since Independence.

This is the 15th Census conducted since 1872. It was carried out in two phases, covering 640 districts and 5924 sub-districts.

The cost of the counting exercise is 22,000 million.


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"Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar and Gujarat show decline in sex ratio while 29 states show an increase," added the Census Commissioner.

india's literacy rate rises up to 74% from 68% in 2007

Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state and the most populous district is Thane in Maharashtra.


Some 2.5 million officials visited households in about 7,000 towns and 600,000 villages.

Best part of the news is the literacy rate .

Another good news not mentioned in this article is that the overall sex ration has increased from 933 to 940 points however the bad news is decline in child sex ratio .

A little more detailed article -

http:///news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?717091

 

[Water Car Engineer]

74% is the national average now, what is the youth of India's average?? I remember it was 80+%, what is it now? They matter the most.

 

[perplexed]

i am sure they are thorough in their jobs

 

[justanobserver]

74% is the national average now, what is the youth of India's average?? I remember it was 80+%, what is it now? They matter the most.

The detailed report will come out within a year, this is just the preliminary report

 

[Secret Service]

I didn't do anything.... I am still a virgin...

it is your Laziness ...

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

population grow rate 17 %

holy moly, it should be 1-2 %

MY Goodness ,was this post meant to be serious ?

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

That was for the whole decade, even 1-2% per year is very high. For a country like India, it should be below 1%.

1 % is ideal. We should aim for that . wont Below
1 % would lead to ageing of the population ?

 

[pmukherjee]

Similar kind of Double Counting happened in my case as well,

While undertaking a gargantuan exercise of the like of census of India, there are bound to be many cases of 'double counting', this will be offset by the cases of 'non counting' which will also happen in the major cities. Like wise, a small percentage of the population is expected to be temporarily abroad and is not included in the counting even though it maybe expected back soon as others will be going out at the same time. This is the floating population which is too minuscule to affect the national or regional trends.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

While undertaking a gargantuan exercise of the like of census of India, there are bound to be many cases of 'double counting', this will be offset by the cases of 'non counting' which will also happen in the major cities. Like wise, a small percentage of the population is expected to be temporarily abroad and is not included in the counting even though it maybe expected back soon as others will be going out at the same time. This is the floating population which is too minuscule to affect the national or regional trends.

Hmm ... Vary vary intalligant analysis .

 

[magan]

its not because people of UP are more reproductive than other indian states....
the land of UP (Ganga- Yamuna plains) are most fertile in the world.... so resources to live life are very easily available here....

two child program wont work here.... the reason is even if we managed to implement this policy strictly we cant stop immigrants from other states and nepal from settling here....

bad attempt sir u.p is the largest expoter of labour in more developed states.............in punjab lage number of immigrants are from up and bihar......

 

[friendly_troll96]

I didn't do anything.... I am still a virgin...

awww sweet!
<3