Welcome to India census data visualization.

Here we primarily focus on population by religious communities in India.

All data is based on 2011 Census released by Indian Government in 2015.

Data can be downloaded here

Population

Population of India is 1.25 billion today. Let's look at the population distribution across states. The map on left shows population density across states. U.P is still leading the race!

The total population growth rate of india, in fact, is mildly decreasing over decades. At its peak, it was almost 25% in '70s. Now in 2011, the population growth rate fell to about 18%.

As ever, thanfully, the gender ratio is not too skewed.

The rural demographic hasn't changed too much either. In 2001, it made up about 72% and now its still 68%.

First glimpse at different religious communities

Almost 1 billion out of 1.25 billion people in India are Hindus. Followed by Hindus are Muslims comprising about 200 million people.

A comprehensive a look at religious communities

India is known for its diversity. The charts below provoke you to think again!

Religions across States

The pulse chart below is eerie. If the bubbles are plotted linearly, to scale - there's no pulse visible at all (most of the dots disappear).

Hungry for more?

If you're still looking for some specific data which you're unable to find above you should be able to find it below. Just use the filters to find exactly what you're looking for.

Filter by Type:
1. All
2. Rural/Urban
3. Gender
4. Hindu
5. Muslim
6. Christian
7. Sikh
8. Buddhist
9. Jain
10. Others
11. Religion not stated

Quotable Quotes

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Substence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Stephen R. Covey

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

Sam Harris

About this page

All the charts on this page were created using Pykcharts.
The motivation behind the page was to explore the charts JS library.

Source code of this page can be found on my github repository. Please feel free to contribute in modifying and updating this page.