SECTION -1: POPULATION - nird.org.in

1 Rural Development Statistics POPULATION SECTION -1: POPULATION This SECTION contains 27 tables providing information on some selected demographic characteristics of rural POPULATION including POPULATION Totals, Sex Ratio, Vital Rates and Expectancy of Life. : The POPULATION figures for the years 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011 both for males and females and also for rural and urban areas, are reported. : Data on number of states, districts, towns and villages in India in 2001 & 2011 are presented. : State-wise POPULATION in 2011 and Decadal Growth during 2001-2011 are shown. : State-wise rural POPULATION data for the years 2001 & 2011 are given. : State-wise decadal growth rate for rural POPULATION 1991-2001 and 2001-2011 are presented.

2 : Table presents the data on rural child POPULATION in the age group of 0-6 years for the year 2011. : Percentage share of total POPULATION by residence in 2001 & 2011 are presented. : Table presents percentage share of rural child POPULATION (0-6 years) state-wise for 2001 & 2011. : Data on child sex-ratio are presented state-wise in rural areas for 2001 & 2011. : Data on POPULATION aged 7 years and above are presented in this table state-wise for 2011. : State-wise POPULATION density information for 2001 & 2011 is shown. : State-wise data on sex ratio for 2001 & 2011 in rural and urban areas are indicated. & : Distribution of villages & districts by POPULATION size groups as per 1991 and 2001 censuses are shown. The shares of each category in POPULATION are indicated.

3 : Data on the vital rates such as Crude Birth Rate, Crude Death Rate and Infant Mortality Rate are included for the years 2007 to 2010 separately for rural and urban areas. : Provides data on a few vital rates in rural areas for the years 2008 to 2010 in different States and UTs. : Based on the Sample Registration System, estimates of the Neonatal Mortality Rates, Post-Neonatal Mortality Rates and Peri-Natal Mortality Rates are included for the years 1980 to 2009. 1. 18 : Contains data on Infant Mortality Rate sex-wise in rural areas for the years 2008, 2009 & 2010 in different States and UTs. & : Time series data on fertility indicators from 1998 to 2009 are presented at all-India level for rural and urban areas.

4 State-wise Maternal Mortality Rates for the years 1997-98, 1999-2001,2001-03, 2004-06 and 2007-09 are presented. : Age-specific Fertility Rates are presented for the years 2004 to 2009. : total Fertility Rates (TFR) in 2008 & 2009 for major states are given. Rural Development Statistics POPULATION : General Fertility Rates and total Marital Fertility Rates are presented for the years 2005 and 2009. : Data on Expectation of Life at Birth for males and females are shown for different time periods. : Data on Expectation of Life at Birth for States and UTs are presented for the period 2002-06. PROJECTIONS : Highlights the estimates for a few major demographic indicators for selected time periods. : Projected levels of the expectation of life at birth for the periods 2011-15, 2016-20 & 2021-25 are given for major states.

5 Rural Development Statistics POPULATION Highlights Pace of urbanisation has been steadily growing in India and 31 per cent of India s POPULATION are inhabited in urban areas in 2011. The phenomenal increase in census towns during 2011 census was also responsible for the increase in urbanisation. There has been a growing tendency to create new districts in several states. Among the major states, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka are more urbanised. The rapid rural- urban migration is also responsible for significant differences in POPULATION densities between rural and urban areas. The decline in POPULATION growth rate was moderate in poverty stricken states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

6 Several states have experienced deceleration in POPULATION growth during last decade compared to 90s. Kerala has registered an impressive annual growth of per cent. It is disturbing to note that there was acceleration of POPULATION growth in the states of Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh. Share of small villages in rural POPULATION has been shrinking while that of villages with POPULATION above 5000 has been increasing. Nearly 56 per cent of districts have POPULATION ranging from one to two millions. Rural- urban disparities on vital rates though narrowing down over the years, similar inter-state differences continue to exist. Expectancy of life has been rising, on an average, at the rate of half year per annum since Independence.

7 Among the major states, Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha have been lagging behind other states in this regard. The females are better placed on this indicator. The declining trend in sex ratio has been arrested and the recent improvements on this indicator reveal that Indian society is sensitive to the gender disparities. The sex-ratio has increased considerably by 26 points during the last decade in urban India. The absolute rise in POPULATION size and declining average household size suggests the disintegration of joint family system in favour of nuclear family. The current Crude Birth Rates, Infant Mortality Rates and Child Malnutrition points out that India has to invest in human development heavily to realise the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

8 Rural Development Statistics POPULATION 1. POPULATION Table : Data on Selected Parameters of India s POPULATION (Number in Millions) Rural urban total Male Female total Male Female total Male Female total 1981 Number 269 256 525 85 75 160 354 331 685 Percentage Sex Ratio --- --- 951 --- --- 878 --- --- 934 1991 Number 324 304 628 115 102 217 439 407 846 Percentage Sex Ratio --- --- 938 --- --- 894 --- --- 927 2001 Number 381 360 741 150 135 285 531 496 1027 Percentage Sex Ratio -- -- 946 -- -- 901 --- --- 933 2011 Number Percentage Sex Ratio -- -- 947 -- -- 926 -- -- 940 Sources.

9 (i) G O I, Final POPULATION Totals, Paper-2 of 1992, Vol. I Census of India, 1991. (ii) G O I, Census of India 2001, provisional POPULATION Totals, Paper-1 of 2001, Registrar General, India. (iii) G O I, Census of India 2011, provisional POPULATION Totals, Paper-1 of 2011, Registrar General, India. Table : Number of States, Districts, Towns and Villages in India- 2001 & 2011 (Number) 2001 2011 Increase States / UTs 35 35 -- Districts 593 640 47 Sub-Districts 5463 5924 461 Towns 5161 7935 2774 Statutory Towns 3799 4041 242 Census Towns 1362 3894 2532 Villages 638588 640867 2279 Source: G O I, Census of India 2011, provisional POPULATION Totals, Paper-1 of 2011, Registrar General, India. Rural Development Statistics POPULATION Table : POPULATION and Decadal Growth: State-wise 2011 State/UT total POPULATION (2011) (Number in Millions) Decadal growth of POPULATION (%) Average annual exponential growth rate of POPULATION (%) Persons Male Females 1991-2001 2001-2011 1991-2001 2001-2011 1.

10 Andhra Pradesh 2. Arunachal Pradesh 3. Assam 4. Bihar 5. Chhattisgarh 6. Goa 7. Gujarat 8. Haryana 9. Himachal Pradesh 10. Jammu & Kashmir 11. Jharkhand 12 Karnataka 13 Kerala 14. Madhya Pradesh 15. Maharashtra 16. Manipur 17. Meghalaya 18. Mizoram 19. Nagaland 20. Odisha 21. Punjab 22. Rajasthan 23. Sikkim 24. Tamil Nadu 25. Tripura 26. Uttarakhand 27. Uttar Pradesh 28. West Bengal Union Territories 29.