Sikh Population Stats in India:latest Census

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The first-ever census report on religion today showed a "high growth" of Muslims at 36 per cent in sharp contrast to the "decline" in the Hindu population to 20.3 per cent in the country.

In terms of growth of different religious communities, Hindus showed a decline over the previous decade, their population growing by 20.3 per cent during 1991 and 2001 as compared to 25.1 per cent during 1981-91. On the other hand, the Muslim population grew by 1.5 per cent to 36 per cent during 1991-2001, compared to 34.5 per cent during 1981-91, according to "The First Report on Religion" here.

The report, prepared by office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, was released by Census Commissioner J K Banthia who presented a copy to Chairman of Minorities Commission Tarlochan Singh.

Out of the total population of 102.8 crore (or 1.028 billion) in the country as at the 2001 Census, the Hindus were 82.7 crore (or 827 million) in number and constituted 80.5% of the population of the country. The Muslim population stood at 13.8 crore (or 138 million) comprising of 13.4% of the population. The next in size are the Christians (2.4 crore or 24 million), followed by Sikhs (1.9 crore or 19 million), Buddhists (79 lakh or 7.9 million), Jains (42 lakh or 4.2 million) and those following ‘Other’ religions and persuasions including the tribal religions, etc. (66 lakh or 6.6 million).

Banthia described the increase in Muslim population as "high growth" for which he said there were several reasons.

"Low literacy rate and low participation in work among the Muslim females were some of the reasons for the high growth," Banthi

a told reporters after releasing the report.

He said among Buddhists also there has been a "sizeable decline" in the growth rate from 35.3 per cent during 1981-91 to only 24.5 per cent during 1991-2001.

Though there was a slight increase in the growth rate of the Christians from 21.5 per cent to 22.6 per cent, there was "noticeable decline" of Sikh growth rate from 24.3 per cent in 1981-91 to only 18.2 per cent during 1991-2001.

Most prominent in the 2001 Census data released was the growth rate of Jains (26 per cent) during 1991-2001 as compared to their growth of only 4.6 per cent during the previous decade 1981-91, the report said.

Describing as "disturbing trend" the lowest sex ratio among the Sikhs, Banthia said as was noted earlier while releasing data on total population in Punjab, the sex ratio was the lowest 893 against per thousand males and added that female foeticide was very prevelant in Punjab.

Going through the data of the report, Singh said the Minorities Commission will create a cell of experts with the help of Census Commissioner to examine the report and will convene a meeting of all the religious leaders to look into the issues of their respective communities and take steps to address them.

The sex ratio for Hindus at 931 were slightly below the national average of 933, whereas Muslims returned 936 and among the Christians, the sex ratio grew "handsomely" from 994 in 1991 to 1009 in 2001, the report said.

Literacy rate for all the religious groups, as revealed again for the first time in 2001 Census, was very encouraging, shattering many myths in circulation earlier when such a dataset was not available for the country as a whole, Banthia said.

The literacy rate among the Hindus at 65.1 per cent was slightly better than the the national average of 64.8 per cent for all religious groups combined. Among the Muslims, literacy rate was 59.1 per cent and the highest litercay rate was re

corded among the Jains at 94.1 per cent followed by Christians 80.3 per cent, Buddhists at 72.7 per cent and Sikhs at 69.4 per cent, the report said.

Against the existing popular perceptions, the female literacy rate among different religious groups does not show wide variation. Among the Muslims, for instance, the literacy rate among the females was returned as 50.1%, below the national average of 53.7%. Slightly better is the female literacy rate among the Hindus (53.2%), again below the national average. The highest literacy rate among the females was recorded among the Jains (90.6%), like their male counterparts. Female literacy rate among Christians was 76.2%, followed by Sikhs (63.1%) and Buddhists (61.7%).

For the first time as per the religion data released on 2001 Census, it is possible to know about the population in the age group 0 to 6 years among different religious communities. In terms of proportion of children in the age group 0 to 6 years, the country average for all communities combined stood at 15.9%, among Hindus and Muslims the proportions were 15.6% and 18.3% respectively. Proportion of child population (0-6) among the Buddhists was 14.4%. However, the proportion of child population among both Sikh (12.8% and Jains 10.6%) are indication of low fertility, more so among the Jains.

The report also emphasised on "signs of definite decline" in the Parsi population in the country.

The Parsi population deserves an exceptional but definite mention and place due to their very small number not only in India but also in the world, Banthia said.

As per 2001 Census, the Parsi population in the country was 69,601 (33,949 males and 35,652 females) as against their population of 76,382 (37,736 males and 38,646 females) in the 1991 Census, he said.

Emphasising that the data given in the report will help the government to pla

n developmental plans with the help of demographic and socio-economic indicators, the officials present at the release function also requested not to make the findings "political".

From :http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=247555

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http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=3724

[joga singh]

thats why i said in some khalistani thread to increase our sikh population.

par meri koi sunda hi nahin.kee karan.

[yahoo_king_ultra]

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

GHAR GHAR GUNJAN PEAN GIYAN NILLE DE SAWAR DIYAN

Yarro ah taan sikhan di gall par ahh taan koi dasso khalsa kinna ehdi chardikalla kinni thats important for sikhism . Not these rode and mone sikhs its better they are decreasing .

KHALSA hamesha chadikallach reha and rahega sikhism hamesha chardikallach reha and rahega counting wadd di ghatdi rahe ess nall koi farak nahi peenda .

[Guest stopsingh2]

thats why i said in some khalistani thread to increase our sikh population.

par meri koi sunda hi nahin.kee karan.

You do that then, have as many kids as you can :TH: . For many people with limited incomes in Punjab they cannot afford to have 5/6 kids. With farmland inheritance dwindling (I know of cases where people only hold 0.5 acre) and the associated drop in incomes people cannot just have lots of kids.

There are apparently close to 40 million vanjare Sikhs living in various states. If the SGPC and other organisations spent a bit more money on parchar and other help to bring these people back under the Sikh fold then that would take our population to close to 60 million. :TH:

[joga singh]

stopsingh2, now i am stopsingh as i m married but , full stop. :lol: @

so now its ur turn. :e:

plus NRI's has lots of money, so they can donate, and people of

punjab can have as many kids they want. :e: