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Includes the finalized Manipur subdivision figures; these are not the March 2011 provisional totals or present-day population estimates.","retrievedDate":"2026-10-11","coverage":{"countries":1,"states":28,"unionTerritories":7},"includedMetrics":["population2011","male2011","female2011","sexRatio2011","density2011"],"omittedMetrics":{"literacy2011":"Not extracted or independently verified for this dataset; do not infer or populate it from the population counts."}},"fieldDefinitions":{"name":"Readable form of the official entity name; ampersands expanded to and. Names use the published source label while boundaries remain those of Census 2011.","slug":"Stable lower-case URL segment; Delhi uses delhi.","censusCode":"Two-character Census state/UT identifier, kept as a string; 00 identifies India. Do not use the alphabetical serial numbers in the National Health Profile as census codes.","type":"Administrative status in Census 2011: country, state or union-territory. This is not a claim about current status.","population2011":"Total persons, a whole-number official Census 2011 count (final/revised).","male2011":"Persons in the published male column. The source notes that persons recorded as Others were included with males when producing these totals and related rates.","female2011":"Persons in the published female column.","sexRatio2011":"Published number of females per 1,000 males, rounded by the source to a whole number.","density2011":"Published persons per square kilometre, rounded by the source to a whole number. Use the source boundary/area conventions; not a density calculated using modern administrative areas."},"fieldSources":{"name":"mha-2014-annex-i","censusCode":"mha-2014-annex-i","national.censusCode":"mha-2014-state-codes","population2011":"mha-2014-annex-i","male2011":"mha-2014-annex-i","female2011":"mha-2014-annex-i","sexRatio2011":"nhp-2019-table-1-1-2","density2011":"nhp-2019-table-1-1-2","type":"puducherry-census2011-ratios"},"sources":[{"id":"mha-2014-annex-i","title":"Census 2011: Lok Sabha Unstarred Question 653, Annex I - Total population, Census 2011","publisher":"Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India","originalDataPublisher":"Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India","publicationDate":"2014-07-15","url":"https://www.mha.gov.in/MHA1/Par2017/pdfs/par2014-pdfs/ls-150714/653.pdf","locator":"Annex I, PDF page 3 of 4 (zero-based page index 2)","fields":["name","censusCode","population2011","male2011","female2011"],"sha256":"5670975f3ba5da6de2378e9e7692ce3246f45e9f92cf548fbd3c6386a2258ad5"},{"id":"nhp-2019-table-1-1-2","title":"National Health Profile 2019, Table 1.1.2 - State/UT wise Distribution of Population, Sex Ratio, Density and Decadal Growth rate of Population: 2011","publisher":"Central Bureau of Health Intelligence, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India","originalDataPublisher":"Office of the Registrar General of India","publicationYear":2019,"url":"https://cbhidghs.mohfw.gov.in/sites/default/files/2024-09/national-health-profile-2019.pdf","locator":"Printed pages 10-11; PDF pages 34-35 (zero-based indices 33-34)","fields":["sexRatio2011","density2011"],"alsoCrossChecks":["population2011","male2011","female2011"],"sha256":"a02cf37542f7e451b4441733ba946983d4e6860f9fc8b2d5119bd7e38e0a25da"},{"id":"puducherry-census2011-ratios","title":"State-wise Population - Statewise Population 2011 Census","publisher":"Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Puducherry","originalDataPublisher":"Office of the Registrar and Census Commissioner, India","url":"https://statistics.py.gov.in/state-wise-population","locator":"Jharkhand state row (code 20); Lakshadweep UT row (code 31); separate state and Union Territory tables","fields":["records[censusCode=20].sexRatio2011","records[censusCode=31].sexRatio2011","type"],"role":"Ratios 948 for Jharkhand and 946 for Lakshadweep agree with the matching official population counts. NHP 2019 instead prints 949 and 947. This older PCA reproduction is not used for national or Manipur population totals, which precede the subdivision revision.","sha256":"3d65aff239629e1cfc9eb17539c07d318b4948bfe1fd98ac93b18036acbfb207"},{"id":"mha-2014-state-codes","title":"Lok Sabha Unstarred Question 3925, Annex - Total/SC/ST Population of India and States/UTs: Census 2011","publisher":"Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India","publicationDate":"2014-02-18","url":"https://www.mha.gov.in/MHA1/Par2017/pdfs/par2014-pdfs/ls-180214/3925.pdf","locator":"Annex, PDF page 2; explicitly gives national code 00 and state/UT codes 01-35","fields":["national.censusCode"]},{"id":"census-2011-catalog","title":"ORGI Primary Census Abstract: Basic Population Figures of India and States, 2011","publisher":"Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India","url":"https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42555","catalogReferenceId":"2011-IndiaState-00","downloadFilename":"2011-IndiaState-0000.xlsx","role":"Official dataset catalog reference for future maintenance. Numeric values in this extract were read from the successfully downloaded MHA and NHP official tables, not this catalog or an unavailable workbook."}],"boundaryNotes":["All comparisons in this dataset use Census 2011 geographies: 28 states and 7 Union Territories. They are not a list of current states and Union Territories.","Undivided Andhra Pradesh on Census 2011 boundaries, including the areas later forming Telangana. This is not the population of present-day Andhra Pradesh alone.","2011 state of Jammu and Kashmir, including the areas later forming the Union Territory of Ladakh. This is not the population of the present-day Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory alone.","Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu are separate 2011 entities and must not also be counted as a merged Union Territory in the same total.","Do not add separate Telangana or Ladakh rows to this dataset without first replacing and reconciling the corresponding undivided parent areas."],"methodologyNotes":[{"id":"manipur-revision","sourceId":"nhp-2019-table-1-1-2","text":"The source notes that Mao Maram, Paomata and Purul subdivisions of Senapati district were finalized after the original PCA release, leading to revised Manipur and India totals. Use Manipur 2,855,794 and India 1,210,854,977 consistently in this dataset."},{"id":"published-sex-classification","sourceId":"nhp-2019-table-1-1-2","text":"For these Census 2011 published tables, persons recorded under Others were included with males in population, child population, literates and related rates. The male/female columns therefore reproduce the official table convention; they are not a new analysis of gender identity."},{"id":"density-area-convention","sourceId":"nhp-2019-table-1-1-2","text":"For India and the then state of Jammu and Kashmir, the source excludes the area and population of territories under Pakistani and Chinese administration when computing density. Retain published density values and the source convention rather than dividing by a different modern area."},{"id":"no-projections","text":"No population projections, interpolations, current estimates or literacy values have been added. Published whole-number ratios and densities are retained rather than silently recalculated."},{"id":"classification","text":"Union Territory census codes in this 2011 dataset are 04, 07, 25, 26, 31, 34 and 35. All other codes 01-35 were states in 2011. 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