{"id":2768,"date":"2011-04-03T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2011-04-03T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:29:43","slug":"india-census-2011-main-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"India Census 2011 -Main Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Census: India <strong>1210 Million,<\/strong> Sex Ratio: 940, Literacy: 74.04%<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>*<strong> Country\u2019s Population Reaches 1210 Million as Per Census 2011<\/strong><br \/>\n* UP Remains Most Populous State With 199 Million<br \/>\n* Overall Sex Ratio Reaches 940 \u2013 7 Points Increases Over 2001<br \/>\n* Literacy Rate Goes up to 74.04 Percent from 64.83 Percent<\/p>\n<p>The population of the country as per the provisional figures of  Census 2011 is 1210.19 million of which 63.72 million (51.54%) are males  and 586.46 million (48.46%) are females. The provisional figures of  Census 2011 were released in New Delhi today by Union Home Secretary  Shri G.K.Pillai and RGI Shri C. Chandramouli.<\/p>\n<p>The major highlights of the Census 2011 (Provisional figures) are as under ;-<\/p>\n<p>* The population of India has increased by more than 181 million during the decade 2001-2011.<\/p>\n<p>* Percentage growth in 2001-2011 is 17.64; males 17.19 and females 18.12.<\/p>\n<p>* 2001-2011 is the first decade (with the exception of 1911-1921)  which has actually added lesser population compared to the previous  decade.<\/p>\n<p>* Uttar Pradesh (199.5 million) is the most populous State in the country\u00a0 followed by Maharashtra with 112 million.<\/p>\n<p>* The percentage decadal growth rates of the six most populous States have declined during 2001-2011 compared to 1991-2001:<\/p>\n<p>* &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uttar Pradesh (25.85% to 20.09%)<br \/>\n* &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maharashtra (22.73% to 15.99%)<br \/>\n* &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bihar (28.62% to 25.07%)<br \/>\n* &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 West Bengal (17.77 % to 13.93%)<br \/>\n* &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Andhra Pradesh (14.59% to 11.10%)<br \/>\n* &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Madhya Pradesh (24.26% to 20.30%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census: India 1210 Million, Sex Ratio: 940, Literacy: 74.04% * Country\u2019s Population Reaches 1210 Million as Per Census 2011 * UP Remains Most Populous State With 199 Million * Overall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2768\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,125],"tags":[571,6189,207,1041,572],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","category-current-affairs-today","tag-census","tag-census-india","tag-current-affairs","tag-currentaffairs","tag-india-census","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}