Census of India

By:
M.Shyam Kumar
M.Maruthi Nandan Kumar
N.Priyadarshini
P. Kiran Kumar
Census
A census is the procedure of
systematically acquiring and recording
information about the members of a given
population.
It is conducted in every 10 years
The last census data is according to 2001
States and UT’s in India
No. of states = 28
No. of Union territories = 6
No. of Districts = 593
No. of Urban regions = 4,762
No. of Towns = 5,161
No. of villages = 6,38,596
 Area of India = 3,287,240 Sq km.
 Largest State Rajasthan 342,239 Sq km
 Smallest State Goa 3,702 Sq km
 Largest UT Andaman & Nicobar Islands
8249 Sq km
 Smallest UT Lakshadweep 32 Km
 Largest District Kuchchh(Gujarat) 45,652 Sq
km
 Smallest District Mahe(Pondicherry) 9 Sq km
 Total Population =1,028,737,436
Males= 532,223,090 (51.73%)
Females = 496,514,346 (48.27%)

Ruralpopulation = 742,490,639 with 72.2%

Urban Population = 286,119,689 with 27.8 %

State with Highest Population is Utter Pradesh with

166,197,921
State with lowest Population is Sikkim with 540,851
Sex Ratio
Sex ratio is calculated as number of
females per thousand males
India = 933
Rural = 946
Urban = 900

Highestsex ratio – Kerala – 1,058

Lowest sex ratio – Haryana – 861
 Age Groups Persons % Males % Females %
6 years and
below 163,819,614 15.93 84,999,203 15.97 78,820,411 15.88
7 to 14 years 199,791,198 19.42 104,488,119 19.63 95,303,079 19.20
15 to 59 years 585,638,723 56.93 303,400,561 57.01 282,238,162 53.04
60 years and
above 76,622,321 7.45 37,768,327 7.10 38,853,994 7.30
Age Not Stated 2,738,472 0.27 1,500,562 0.28 1,237,910 0.23

600,000,000

500,000,000

400,000,000

300,000,000 Persons
Males
Females
200,000,000

100,000,000

0
6 years and 7 to 14 years 15 to 59 years 60 years and Age Not Stated
below above
 Number
of
Literates  Total %  Rural %  Urban %
  Persons 560,687,797 50 361,870,817 50 198,816,980 50
  Males 336,533,716 30 223,551,641 31 112,982,075 28
  Females 224,154,081 20 138,319,176 19 85,834,905 22

600,000,000

500,000,000

400,000,000

  Persons
300,000,000   Males
  Females

200,000,000

100,000,000

0
 Total  Rural  Urban
State with highest literacy rate is Kerala
with 90.9%
 Males – 94.2%
 Females – 87.7%
State with Lowest Literacy rate is Bihar
with 47%
 Males – 59.7%
 Females – 33.1%
Andhra Pradesh
No. of districts = 23
Area = 275,045 Sq km
Total population = 76,210,007
 Highest in East Godavari 4,901,420
 Lowest in Vizayanagaram 2,249,254
Rural population = 55,401,067
 Highest in East Godavari 3,749,535
 Lowest in Hyderabad with 0
Literacy= 38,338,578
Sex Ratio = 980
Hyderabad – 933
Nizamabad – 1017
 Age Groups Persons %
0 to 4 years 6,684,361 8.771
5 to 14 years 17,713,764 23.243
15 to 59 years 45,890,354 60.216
60 years and above 5,921,528 7.77

0 to 4 years
5 to 14 years
15 to 59 years
60 years and above
Top 5 districts in AP with highest
population

Districts population literacy sex ratio

East Godavari 6.43% 2,807,728 993
Guntur 5.86% 2,455,965 984
Krishna 5.50% 2,539,974 978
Visakhapatnam 5.03% 2,002,316 985
Hyderabad 5.03% 2,634,949 933
“Thank You”