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Population growth in Chandigarh over the years. As of 2011 India census, Chandigarh had a population of 1,055,450, [2] [3] giving it a density of about 9,252 (7,900 in 2001) persons per square kilometre. [50] [51] Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. The sex ratio is 818 females for every 1,000 males. [1]
Population density map of India. India is a union of twenty-eight states and eight union territories. [1] As of 2011, with an estimated population of 1.210 billion, India occupies 2.4 percent of the world's land surface area but is home to 17.5 percent of the world's population. [2]
Chandigarh has an effective literacy rate of 86.77% (based on population 7 years and above), higher than the national average; with male literacy of 90.81% and female literacy of 81.88%. [8] 10.8% of the population is under 6 years of age. [8] The population of Chandigarh formed 0.12 per cent of India in 2011. [9]
According to the 2011 census, the total number of households in India is 248.8 million. Of which 202.4 million are Hindu, 31.2 million are Muslim, 6.3 million are Christian, 4.1 million are Sikh, and 1.9 million are Jain [38] [39] According to 2011 census, there are around 3.01 million places of worship in India. [40]
Summary by Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India; literacy rates as % of population. [4] [a] [b] State/UT 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011; A&N islands: 30.30 40.07 51.15 63.19 73.02 81.30 86.63 Andhra Pradesh - 21.19 24.57 35.66 44.08 60.47 67.02 Arunachal Pradesh - 7.13 11.29 ...
According to the NFHS-4 (2015–16) sex ratio of the total population (females per 1,000 males) was 991 (with an urban ratio of 956 and a rural ratio of 1,009). [4] In 2011–2013, it was revealed through a population census with the Sample Registration System (SRS) that the sex ratio of India was 909 females per 1000 of males. [7]
Map showing the population density in India, per 2011 Census. [100] India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [101] lived in about 638,000 villages [102] and the remaining 27.8% [101] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations ...
The following tables list the population details of various states. The columns include the hierarchical administrative subdivision codes , [ 8 ] the district name, district headquarters, 2011 census population, [ 9 ] area in square kilometres, and the population density per square kilometre.