Spatial distribution of Population in India?
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According to the 2001 Census, India’s population as on March 1, 2001 was 1,02,87,37,436 (this figure includes ‘estimated’ figures for three subdivisions of Manipur as census in these places are reported, to have been cancelled due to technical and administrative reasons).
Excluding the estimated figures, the population of India in 2001 was 1,028,610,328 of which 532,156,772 were males, and 496,453,556 were females. However, the spatial distribution of population within the country is very uneven. Obvious at the level of states, these contrasts are even more sharp at the level of districts.
Uttar Pradesh has the largest population followed by Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh in the same order. These five states together represent practically half of the country’s population. More than one-fourth of our people live in two states of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra alone.
Uttar Pradesh has more people than the two largest states, i.e., Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The three southern states of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu together have fewer people than Uttar Pradesh alone. In fact, more people live in Delhi than in many other states or in all the Union Territories put together.
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