The 1991 Census of India was the 13th in a series of
censuses
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
held in
India every decade since
1872
Events
January–March
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The population of India was counted as 838,583,988.
[ Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Paris, France]
Retrieved 17 December 2014. The number of enumerators was 1.6 million.
Religious demographics
Hindus comprises 69.01 crore(81.53%) and Muslims were 12.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census.
;Population trends for major religious groups in India (1991)
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).
The number of
Sanskrit speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.
Other statistics
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Census town
In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics.
India
In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...
s in 1991 census of India were 1,702.
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Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to:
* Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent
* Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory
* Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...
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.
See also
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Demographics of India
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Census town
In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics.
India
In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...
References
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