the count of muslim population in india according to 2011 census is 172.2 million.
the count of muslim population in india according to 2011 census is 172.2 million.
what is the count of muslim population in india according to 2011 census?
172.2 million
the religious data on india census 2011 was released by the government of india on 25 august 2015. hindus are 79.8% (966.3 million), while muslims are 14.23% (172.2 million) in india. and christians are 2.30% (28.7 million). according to the 2011 census of india, there are 57,264 parsis in india. for the first time, a "no religion" category was added in the 2011 census. 2.87 million were classified as people belonging to "no religion" in india in the 2011 census 0.24% of india's population of 1.21 billion. given below is the decade-by-decade religious composition of india until the 2011 census. there are six religions in india that have been awarded "national minority" status - muslims, christians, sikhs, jains, buddhists and parsis. sunnis, shias, bohras, agakhanis and ahmadiyyas were identified as sects of islam in india. as per 2011 census, six major faiths- hindus, muslims, christians, sikhs, buddhists, jains make up over 99.4% of india's 1.21 billion population, while "other religions, persuasions" (orp) count is 8.2 million. among the orp faiths, six faiths- 4.957 million-strong sarnaism, 1.026 million-strong gond, 506,000-strong sari, donyi-polo (302,000) in arunachal pradesh, sanamahism (222,000) in manipur, khasi (138,000) in meghalaya dominate. maharashtra is having the highest number of atheists in the country with 9,652 such people, followed by kerala.
2011 census of india
in 2011, a pew research center population estimate in a global study based on growth rates put the percentage of muslims in albania at 82.1% (estimated number 2,601,000) however, a gallup poll gave percentages of religious affiliations with only 43% muslim, 19% eastern orthodox, 15% catholic and 23% atheist or nonreligious. in the 2011 census the declared religious affiliation of the population was: 56.70% (1,587,608) sunni muslims, 2.09% (58,628) bektashis, 10.03% (280,921) catholics, 6.75% (188,992) orthodox, 0.14% (3,797) evangelists, 0.07% (1,919) other christians, 5.49% (153,630) believers without denomination, 2.05% (69,995) atheists, 13.79% (386,024) undeclared. controversies surrounded the albanian census (2011) over whether a religious affiliation option should be part of the count as people like some intellectuals in albania feared that the results may make albania appear "too muslim" to europe. from previous pre-communist highs of 69.3% (1937) and 72% (1947) the official census of 2011 was the first to count religious affiliation after an absence of many decades that showed the albanian muslim population to have deceased to 56.70%. the muslim community of albania objected to having the generic muslim option split according to internal differentiation into categories such as bektashi. the census results overall have been criticized by the muslim community of albania and they have estimated the number of all muslims in albania to be 70%. owing to the large number of people in albania not having declared a religion the census figures leave scope for other explanations and analyses of what is the actual religious composition of albania.
islam in albania