11 Facts About The Population Of India That’ll Leave You Stunned

Forget about literacy rate, low GDP, poverty, black money and corruption, can you guess what might be the most annoying flaw India is unable to get over? the most consistent factor that has been hitting India hard since a long time is over population.

Over Population!

Yes! the most consistent factor that has been hitting India hard since a long time, maybe since Independence days.

Now, go through the following factors to freak out:

1. Surprisingly, India and Pakistan have a similar number of Muslim residents, but India’s Muslim population accounts for only 14% of the nation, compared to Pakistan’s 97%.

2. Look at the red patch! that area on this map has around the same population as the regions in blue colour.

3. Mumbai’s local trains have a daily ridership of 7.58 million. That’s larger than the population of many countries, including New Zealand and Bulgaria.

4. Uttar Pradesh ALONE has the population more or less the same as that of the entire nation of Brazil.

5. According to 2011 census, India’s student population stood at around 315 million, which is TWICE the entire population of Russia.

6. This can be shocking, but it is true, there are more English speakers in India than there are people in the whole of the United Kingdom.

7. In the 2013 Kumbh Mela, around 120 million devotees attended the event over two months. That’s about the same population as Mexico.

8. In between the period of 1901 to 2001, India’s total population increased by a whopping 332%, from 238 million to 1.028 billion.

9. More than 65 million Indians are living in slums. That’s almost the same population as the country of Thailand (67.01 million) precisely.

10. The average population density of India is 382 people per square kilometre, and Bihar’s figures stand at a mindboggling 1,102.

11. And between 2001 and 2011, India’s population growth was even more than Pakistan’s entire population.