1991 census of India

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 state	Uttar Pradesh (132,062,800)
Least populous state	Sikkim (406,000)

The population of India was counted as 838,583,988.^[2] The number of enumerators was 1.6 million.^[1]

Religious demographics

Hindus comprises 69.01 crore(81.53%) and Muslims were 10.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census.^[3]

Population trends for major religious groups in India (1991)

Religious group	Population  %
Hindu	81.53%
Muslim	12.61%
Christian	2.32%
Sikh	1.94%
Buddhist	0.77%
Jain	0.40%
Parsi	0.08%
Animist, others	0.44%

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).^[4] The number of Sanskrit speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.^[5]

Other statistics

• Census towns in 1991 census of India were 1,702.^[6]
• Jammu and Kashmir was excluded from census-taking in 1991 due to Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir.^[7] The number for J&K was derived by interpolation for the population of religious communities in the state.^[8]
• 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.^[9]

See also

• Demographics of India
• Census town