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decennial An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded. Most countries celebrate national anniversaries, typically called national days. These could be the List of national independence days, date of independen ...
census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011. While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under Viceroy Lord Mayo, the first complete census was taken in 1872. Post 1949, it has been conducted by the
Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, founded in 1961 by the Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs, for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India including Census of India and Li ...
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Ministry of Home Affairs An interior ministry or ministry of the interior (also called ministry of home affairs or ministry of internal affairs) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement. In some states, the i ...
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Government of India The Government of India (ISO 15919, ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India or the Central Government) is the national authority of the Republic of India, located in South Asia, consisting of States and union t ...
. All the censuses since 1951 were conducted under the 1948 Census of India Act, which predates the Constitution of India. The 1948 Census of India Act does not bind the Union Government to conduct the census on a particular date or to release its data in a notified period. The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next was to be held in 2021 before it was postponed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in India The COVID-19 pandemic in India is a part of the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As of , according to Indian government ...
. The next 16th census will commence from 1st October 2026 for the Himalayan states and 1st March 2027 for rest of the Indian states.


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Republic of India

List of censuses conducted in India after independence: * 1951 census of India *
1961 census of India The 1961 census of India was the tenth in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. The population of India was counted as 438,936,918 people. Population by state Language data The 1961 census recognized 1,652 ''mother tong ...
* 1971 census of India *
1981 census of India The 1981 census of India was the 12th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872. The population of India was counted as 685,184,692 people. Population by state Religious demographics See also *Demographics of India R ...
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1991 census of India The 1991 census of India was the 13th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. The population of India was counted as 838,583,988. Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Paris, France Retrieved 17 De ...
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2001 census of India The 2001 census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females. The total population increased b ...
* 2011 census of India * 2027 census of India


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Demographics of India India is the List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country in the world, with one-sixth of the world's population. "It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present". Between 1975 and 2010, the population ...
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List of cities in India by population This is a list of the most populous cities in India. Cities are a type of Local government in India, sub-administrative unit and are defined by the Ministry of Home Affairs (India), Ministry of Home Affairs. In some cases, cities are bifurcated ...
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List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate This article documents the literacy rate of states and union territories of the Republic of India. The Indian national census is a key source for literacy data. However, a national census has not been conducted since 2011 in India, thus other ...
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List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India India is a country in South Asia and is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the most-populous country with more than 1.4 billion people, home to nearly 17.5 percent of the world's population. India consists of twenty-eig ...
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List of states and union territories of India by population India is a union consisting of States and union territories of India, 28 states and 8 union territories. As of 2024, with an estimated population of 1.484 1,000,000,000, billion, India is the List of countries and dependencies by population, wor ...
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List of states and union territories of India by sex ratio Sex ratio is used to describe the ratio of females to males in a population. In India, the sex ratio has been estimated via a number of methods and data sets including the decennial censuses, the National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), the Civ ...
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List of states in India by past population India is a union of twenty-eight states and eight union territories. As of 2011, with an estimated population of 1.210 billion, India occupies 2.4 percent of the world's land surface area but is home to 17.5 percent of the worl ...
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List of towns in India by population The entire work of this article is based on the 2011 Census of India, conducted by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, under Ministry of Home Affairs (India), Government of India. Categorization Census of India (201 ...
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Timeline of Indian history This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. Also see the list of govern ...


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