Population and Aadhaar
The government’s projection is 142.59 crore people on 1 March 2026. The official UIDAI report verified for this update estimates 134.77 crore live Aadhaar holders on 30 June 2026, equivalent to 94.59% of UIDAI’s own projected denominator. UIDAI adjusts for estimated deaths, and the address on an Aadhaar record can differ from domicile. Use Census 2011 for counted village and ward populations and the projection for the more recent national estimate.
Population projection and Table 8 · Aadhaar state tables and denominator · UIDAI report
Telecom subscriptions in September 2026
TRAI’s 27 October release reports 1,367.93 million telephone subscriptions and 1,107.68 million broadband subscriptions at 30 September. Telephone density excluding machine-to-machine connections was 85.41 subscriptions per 100 projected residents. People can hold more than one subscription, and the telecom service areas differ from state boundaries. Use a household survey to answer device ownership questions.
TRAI Press Release 140, summary and tables · August 2026 baseline and definitions
Employment in September 2026
The monthly PLFS reported 55.5% labour force participation, a 52.7% worker-to-population ratio and 5.0% unemployment among the labour force, for age 15 and above under Current Weekly Status. The last figure uses the labour force as its denominator. These national survey rates do not establish a taluka or ward employment count.
MoSPI September PLFS release, 15 October · PLFS source guide
Health, fertility and births
The provisional NFHS-6 national fact sheet for 2023–24 reports 2.0 children per woman and excludes Manipur. The 2024 Sample Registration System bulletin reports 24 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. Civil Registration System counts measure registered events, while SRS estimates rates from its sample. Use the birth evidence page for the registration and estimation methods.
NFHS-6 source guide · SRS 2024 source guide · Births and registration evidence
30 October 2026 Gazette update
In areas covered by S.O. 5913(E), self-enumeration runs 10–24 January 2027, household visits run 25 January–28 February, and the revisional round runs 1–5 March. The reference moment is 00:00 on 1 March.
Separate arrangements apply to Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Ladakh, designated snow-bound areas in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, and Manipur pending a further declaration. Use the notification for the exact geographic scope.