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India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population. According to estimates from the United Nations UN , India has overtaken China as the country with the largest population in the world , with a population of 1,,, at the end of April Between and , the population doubled to 1. In , the median age of an Indian was The number of children under the age of five peaked in , and since then the number has been falling.
The number of Indians under 15 years old peaked slightly later in and is now also declining. India has many ethnic groups, [ 16 ] and every major religion is represented, as are four major families of languages Indo-European , Dravidian , Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan languages as well as two language isolates : the Nihali language , [ 17 ] spoken in parts of Maharashtra , and the Burushaski language, spoken in parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
They represent over 0. Overall, only the continent of Africa exceeds the linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity of the nation of India. The sex ratio was females for males in , and per in The following table lists estimates for the population of India including what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh from prehistory up until It includes estimates and growth rates according to five economic historians, along with interpolated estimates and overall aggregate averages derived from their estimates.
The population grew from the South Asian Stone Age in 10, BC to the Maurya Empire in BC at a steadily increasing growth rate, [ 31 ] before population growth slowed down in the classical era up to AD, and then became largely stagnant during the early medieval era era up to AD. Under the Mughal Empire , India experienced a high economic and demographic upsurge, [ 31 ] due to Mughal agrarian reforms that intensified agricultural production.
Under the reign of Akbar reigned — in , the Mughal Empire's urban population was up to 17 million people, larger than the urban population in Europe.
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The total fertility rate is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire years. The population of India under the British Raj including what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh according to censuses:. Studies of India's population since have focused on such topics as total population, birth and death rates, geographic distribution, literacy, the rural and urban divide, cities of a million, and the three cities with populations over eight million: Delhi, Greater Mumbai Bombay , and Kolkata Calcutta.
Mortality rates fell in the period —45, primarily due to biological immunisation. Suggestions that it was the benefits of colonialism are refuted by academic thinking: "There can be no serious, informed belief India occupies 2.
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At the census India's population exceeded that of the entire continent of Africa by million people in The table below summarises India's demographics excluding the Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul subdivisions of Senapati district of Manipur state due to cancellation of census results according to religion at the census in per cent. The data are "unadjusted" without excluding Assam and Jammu and Kashmir ; the census was not conducted in Assam and the census was not conducted in Jammu and Kashmir.
The table below represents the infant mortality rate trends in India, based on sex, over the last 15 years. In the urban areas of India, average male infant mortality rates are slightly higher than average female infant mortality rates. India's census shows a serious decline in the number of girls under the age of seven — activists posit that eight million female fetuses may have been aborted between and Mother tongue languages of India According to the census, There are a total of languages and mother tongues spoken in India.
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Of these, 22 languages are specified in the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution , while are non-specified. The table below excludes Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul subdivisions of Senapati District of Manipur state due to cancellation of census results. Source 2: Our World in Data [ 96 ].