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The 1991 census of India was the 13th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.[1]
1991 census of India | ||
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General information | ||
Country | India | |
Results | ||
Total population | 838,583,988 (22.38%) | |
Most populous | Uttar Pradesh (132,062,800) | |
Least populous | Sikkim (406,000) |
The population of India was counted as 838,583,988.[2] The number of enumerators was 1.6 million.[1]
Hindus comprises 69.01 crore(81.53%) and Muslims were 5.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census.[3]
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).[4] The number of Sanskrit speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.[5]
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