CENSUS

- Census 2011 was the 15th Census of India since 1872. It was held in two phases:
1. House listing and Housing Census (April to Sept. 2010) and
2. Population Enumeration (9th to 28th February 2011 with Revisional round during 1st to 5th March, 2011). Reference Date was 0.00 hour of 1st March 2011. In snow bound areas, the Population Enumeration was conducted from 11th 30th September 2010. The Final Population data was released on 30.04.13. The general trends of census 2011 are being mentioned as under:
Population: Persons-1210.7 million; Males 623.2 million; and Females-587.5 million.
Density of Population 2001-2011: Density in 2001:325 and density in 2011-382, difference being 17.5% (density is defined as the number of persons / sq km.)
Gender composition of Population 2011: Overall sex ratio at the National level has increased by 7 points since census 2001 to reach 943 at census 2011. This is the highest sex ratio recorded since census 1991.
As per the census 2011, literates constituted 73.0% of the total population aged seven and above and illiterates formed 27.0% Literacy rate has gone up from 64.8 % in 2001 to 73.0% showing an increase of 8.2 percentage points. It is encouraging to note the out of total of 202,810,720 literates added during the decade, female 104,660,657 outnumber male 98,150,063.