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1991 census of India

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

1991 census of India
1991 (1991)
India
838,583,988 (22.38%)
Uttar Pradesh (132,062,800)
Sikkim (406,000)

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

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

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

Religious groupPopulation  %
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12.61%
2.32%
1.94%
0.77%
0.40%
0.08%
0.44%

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). The number of Sanskrit speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.

  • Census towns in 1991 census of India were 1,702.

  • Jammu and Kashmir was excluded from census-taking in 1991 due to Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. The number for J&K was derived by interpolation for the population of religious communities in the state.

  • Census was not conducted in Assam in the previous census in 1981 due to separatist movements that time. The census data for Assam was done based on interpolation.

  • Demographics of India

  • Census town

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