Country India | Total population 838,583,988 | |
The 1991 Census of India was the 13th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.
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The population of India was counted as 838,583,988. The number of enumerators was 1.6 million.
Religious demographics
Hindus comprises 69.01 crore(81.53%) and Muslims were 10.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census.
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). The number of Sanskrit speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.
Other statistics
References
1991 Census of India Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA