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Census 2011 is still the constitutional baseline; the next one is notified with caste enumeration.
Census 2011 headline numbers
- Population 1.21 billion; density 382 per sq km; decadal growth 17.7%.
- Sex ratio 943; child sex ratio 919; literacy 74%; urban share 31.2%.
Migration
- Census streams: rural-to-rural largest by count, rural-to-urban for work in cities.
- Female-dominated marriage migration vs male-dominated work migration; Bihar-UP out, Delhi-Maharashtra in.
Urbanisation
- Class-I towns hold over half the urban population; 53 million-plus cities.
- Census towns grew faster than statutory towns in 2001-11; the 2027 census with caste enumeration is big for policy.
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- 2011: 382 density, 943 sex ratio, 74% literacy.
- 31% urban; 53 million-plus cities.
- Economic survey cites female LFPR gains since 2017-18.
- Next census: 2027, with caste count.
Quick revision
- Population 1.21 billion; density 382 per sq km; decadal growth 17.7%.
- Sex ratio 943; child sex ratio 919; literacy 74%; urban share 31.2%.
- Census streams: rural-to-rural largest by count, rural-to-urban for work in cities.
- Female-dominated marriage migration vs male-dominated work migration; Bihar-UP out, Delhi-Maharashtra in.
- Class-I towns hold over half the urban population; 53 million-plus cities.
- Census towns grew faster than statutory towns in 2001-11; the 2027 census with caste enumeration is big for policy.