Salient features

India occupies 2.4% of the world's land area and supports over 17.5% of the world's population. India has more arable land area than any country except the United States, and more water area than any country except Russia, Canada and the United States. Indian life revolves mostly around agriculture and allied activities in small villages, where the overwhelming majority of Indians live. As per the 2001 census, 72.2% of the population lives in about 638,000 villages and the remaining 27.8% lives in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations.

Where does India stand today globally?

No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Area

Category

Global Ranking 7th 2nd 93rd 2nd 10th 4th 138th 127th

Population Population growth rate Labour force GDP (nominal) GDP (PPP) GDP (nominal) per capita GDP (PPP) per capita

GDP (real) growth rate

5th

10 Human Development Index 134th 11 Exports 12 Imports 13 Current Account balance 14 Received FDI 16th 11th 169th 29th

15 Foreign Exchange reserves 6th 16 External debt 17 Public debt 18 Electricity consumption 19 Mobile phone users 20 Internet users 21 Motor vehicle production 22 Military expenditure 26th 29th 5th 2nd 4th 7th 10th

23 Active troops 24 Rail network 25 Road network

3rd 4th 3rd

List of States and Union territories by demographics

Census 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 population 361,088,000 439,235,000 548,160,000 683,329,000 846,387,888 1028,737,436 1210,193,422 % change 21.6% 24.8% 24.7% 23.9% 21.5% 17.6%

Districts in India: Census 2011

No. of Districts without any geographical change 5 12 8 1 11 17 9 18 47 34 4

State/UT Code

India/State/UT

No. of districts in 2001 14 12 17 1 13 19 9 32 70 37 4

No. of Districts in 2011 22 12 20 1 13 21 9 33 71 38 4

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11

Jammu & Kashmir Himachal Pradesh Punjab Chandigarh Uttarakhand Haryana NCT of Delhi Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh Bihar Sikkim

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

Arunachal Pradesh Nagaland Manipur Mizoram Tripura Meghalaya Assam West Bengal Jharkhand Orissa Chattisgarh Madhya Pradesh Gujarat Daman & Diu Dadra & Nagar Haveli Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Goa Lakshadweep Kerala Tamil Nadu Pondicherry Andaman & Nicobar Islands INDIA

13 8 9 8 4 7 23 18 18 30 16 45 25 2 1 35 23 27 2 1 14 30 4 2 593

16 11 9 8 4 7 27 19 24 30 18 50 26 2 1 35 23 30 2 1 14 32 4 3 640

10 4 9 4 2 4 15 17 9 26 14 36 20 2 1 31 23 24 2 1 14 25 4 1 464

Religious demographics:
India contains the majority of the worlds Zoroastrians (even ahead of Iran), Sikhs, Hindus, Jains and Bah's. India is also home to the third- largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan. Religious majorities vary greatly by state. The majority of states have a Hindu majority. However, Jammu and Kashmir and Lakshadweep are Muslim majority

states; Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya are Christian majority; Punjab is majority Sikh; Sikkim and Ladakh are Buddhist majority areas.

Linguistic demographics: 43% of the Hindus speak Hindi while the rest speak Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and other languages. Almost 45% of the Muslims speak Urdu while the rest speak Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Other languages. About one- third of the Christians speak Malayalam, One-sixth speak Tamil while the rest speak a variety of languages. In total, there are 1652 language and directs spoken in India.

Largest Cities Of India: Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 City Name Mumbai Delhi Bengaluru Kolkata Chennai Hyderabad Ahmedabad Pune Surat Kanpur State Maharastra Delhi Karnataka West bengal Tamilnadu Andhra Pradesh Gujrat Maharastra Gujrat Uttar Pradesh Population 13,830,884 12,565,901 8,425,970 5,138,208 4,616,639 4,068,611 3,959,432 3,446,630 3,344,135 3,221,435