1991 census of India explained

1991 census of India
Country:	India
Population:	838,583,988
Percent Change:	22.38%
Region Type:	state
Most Populous:	Uttar Pradesh (132,062,800)
Least Populous:	Sikkim (406,000)
Previous Year:	1981
Previous Census:	1981 census of India
Next Year:	2001
Next Census:	2001 census of India

The 1991 census of India was the 13th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.^[1]

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 5.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census.^[3]

Population trends for major religious groups in India (1991)

Religious group	Population %
Muslim
Christian
	Sikh
	Jain
	Parsi
Animist, others

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Planning for the 2001 Census of India based on the 1991 Census . Vijayanunni, M. . 26–29 August 1998 . 18th Population Census Conference . Honolulu, Hawaii, US . Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific . 19 November 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081119080707/http://www.ancsdaap.org/cencon98/papers/india/india.pdf . 17 December 2014.
2. Book: Dev, Amiya . Comparative Literature : Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity . 2010 . Lisa Block de Behar . . 2 . 172–183 . Literary Multilingualism II : Multilingualism in India . Paola Mildonian . Jean-Michel Djian . Djlel Kadir . Alfons Knauth . Dolores Romero Lopez . Marcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva. Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Paris, France, http://www.eolss.net. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
3. Web site: With current trends, it will take 220 years for India's Hindu population to equal Muslims numbers in the world. 16 December 2014 .
4. Web site: Mallikarjun, B. . Languages of India according to 2001 Census . Languages in India . 7 November 2001 . 17 December 2014.
5. News: Where are the Sanskrit speakers?. The Hindu . 9 August 2014 .
6. News: Census findings point to decade of rural distress. The Hindu . 25 September 2011 .
7. News: Where Are India's 2011 Census Figures on Religion?. Wall Street Journal . 9 January 2015 . Sugden . Joanna . Seervai . Shanoor .
8. Web site: Religion Census: A faithful count.
9. News: Muslims' growth rate much lower. The Times of India . 7 September 2004 .