The 1991 Census of India was the 13th in a series of
censuses held in
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
every decade since
1872
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
* February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
.
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
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.
Other statistics
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Census towns in 1991 census of India were 1,702.
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Jammu and Kashmir was excluded from Census-taking in 1991 due to
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as the Kashmir insurgency, is an ongoing separatist militant insurgency against the Indian administration in Jammu and Kashmir, a territory constituting the southwestern portion of the larger g ...
. 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
India is the second most populated country in the world with a sixth of the world's population. According to official estimates, India's population stood at 1.38 billion.
Between 1975 and 2010, the population doubled to 1.2 billio ...
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Census town
References
External links
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