Demographic Profile

Population of India as per 2011 census is 1,210,854,977.
India, with 2.4% of the world's surface area, accounts for 17.5% of its population.
833 million (68.84%) live in rural areas and 377 million stay in urban areas:
- Hindus are 79.8%
- Muslims are 14.23%
- Sikhs are 1.72%
- Christians are 2.30%
- Parsis - there are 57,264 Parsis in India.
- No religion - 2.87 million were classified as people belonging to "No Religion" in India in the 2011 census, which is 0.24% of India's population.
Literacy Rate - 74.04% with 82.14% of the males and 65.46% of the females being literate.
Sex Ratio per 1000 males - 940 ....