Uttar Pradesh Population 2024

March 8, 2024 by Babji

One-sixth of India's population lives in Uttar Pradesh, is located in the north central part of India and has the highest population in India. Uttar Pradesh population in 2024 is estimated to be 237 million (23.7 Crores). By Aug, 2023 Uttar Pradesh population is projected to be 23.56 crores (235.68 million) as per Unique Identification Aadhar India, updated 31, May 2023. It is bounded by Bihar on the east, Haryana and Rajasthan on the west, Nepal and Uttarakhand to the north and Madhya Pradesh to the South. Its 4th biggest state in terms of land and covers the area of 243,290 sq km (93,933 sq mi) with the average density 828 persons per square kilometer. The State is often referred as "UP" or "U-P", uttar means north and pradesh means place. Hindi is the main language is most widely spoken and official language in Uttar Pradesh and the population is approximately 3% of World population. As per NFHS 2019-2021 report, Total Fertility Rate of Uttar Pradesh is 2.4 children per women compared to 2.7 in 2016 and the age of consent is 18 years.

The population in uttar pradesh is grown 3.5 times from 46 million in 1901 to 166 million in 2001.The first census recorded was in the year 1901 with a population of 46,647,804 by British India. The population is constantly increasing its growth rate from 6.56 to 25.85% till 2001 and with decreasing growth rate from 25.85 to 20.23% in 2001 to 2011. The Uttar Pradesh population by 2021 will be 236 million.

Census year	Persons	Absolute	Percentage	Males	Females
1901	46,647,804	-	-	24,066,836	22,580,968
1911	46,012,663	-635,141	-1.36	24,021,001	21,991,662
1921	44,556,427	-1,456,236	-3.16	23,347,896	21,208,531
1931	47,478,533	2,922,106	6.56	24,945,773	22,532,760
1941	53,920,630	6,442,097	13.57	28,269,504	25,651,126
1951	60,273,743	6,353,113	11.78	31,581,889	28,691,854
1961	70,143,635	9,869,892	16.38	36,784,048	33,359,587
1971	83,848,797	13,705,162	19.54	44,701,182	39,147,615
1981	105,136,540	21,287,743	25.39	55,861,688	49,274,852
1991	132,061,653	26,925,113	25.61	70,396,062	61,665,591
2001	166,197,921	34,136,268	25.85	87,565,369	78,632,552
2011	199,812,341	33,614,420	20.23	104,480,510	95,331,831

Source: A-2 Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901

Cities

As on 2019 estimated, Lucknow is the capital city of uttar pradesh with more than 3.7 million, Kanpur is the second populated city with 3.5 million, Ghaziabad with 2.7 million and Agra with 2.2 million. Other 7 cities with more than 1 million plus population are Varanasi, Meerut, Allahabad, Bareilly, Aligarh, Moradabad and Saharanpur.

Population Pyramid

Source: 2011 Census: Population In Five Year Age-Group

Uttar Pradesh Population by Religion

Uttar Pradesh population religion wise according to 2011 census, Hindus are the largest religion in Uttar pradesh accounting to 79.7% which is 159 million people followed by Muslims with 19.2%. Other religions like Christian, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists are relatively lower than 1%. The total Muslim population is 38.4 Million which stands on second populous, followed by Sikh population with 643,500.

Religion	Persons	Percentage	Males	Females
Hindu	159,312,654	79.73	83,555,724	75,756,930
Muslim	38,483,967	19.26	19,867,314	18,616,653
Christian	356,448	0.18	182,838	173,610
Sikh	643,500	0.32	341,451	302,049
Buddhist	206,285	0.10	107,424	98,861
Jain	213,267	0.11	110,994	102,273
Others	13,598	0.01	7,070	6,528
Not Stated	582,622	0.29	307,695	274,927

Source: Details of Religion In Main Table C-1- 2011 (India & States/UTs)

Ethnic groups of Uttar Pradesh

The Uttar Pradesh state tribe population as below.

Tribes	Population as per Census 2011
All Scheduled Tribes	1,134,273
Bhotia	5,196
Buksa	4,710
Jaunsari	3,720
Raji	1,295
Tharu	105,291
Gond, Dhuria, Nayak, Ojha, Pathari, Raj Gond (in the districts of Mehrajganj, Sidharth Nagar, Basti, Gorakhpur, Deoria, Mau, Azamgarh, Jonpur, Balia, Gazipur, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra)	569,035
Kharwar, Khairwar (in the districts of Deoria, Balia, Ghazipur, Varanasi and Sonbhadra)	160,676
Saharya (in the district of Lalitpur)	70,634
Parahiya (in the district of Sonbhadra)	901
Baiga (in the district of Sonbhadra)	30,006
Pankha, Panika (in the districts of Sonbhadra and Mirzapur)	24,862
Agariya (in the district of Sonbhadra)	17,376
Patari (in the district of Sonbhadra)	132
Chero (in the districts of Sonbhadra and Varanasi)	42,227
Bhuiya, Bhuinya (in the district of Sonbhadra)	15,599
Generic Tribes etc.	82,613

Languages spoken in Uttar Pradesh

Hindi is widely spoken in Uttar Pradesh with 94% of the population, followed by Urdu with 5.4%. Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi, Maithili are together accounted to less than 1%.

Languages	Persons	Percentage	Rural	Urban
Hindi	187,979,055	94.0778	149,936,334	38,042,721
Urdu	10,820,232	5.4152	4,851,370	5,968,862
Punjabi	508,736	0.2546	332,759	175,977
Bengali	241,007	0.1206	129,389	111,618
Sindhi	28,952	0.0145	945	28,007
Maithili	24,831	0.0124	8,695	16,136
Odia	24,729	0.0124	7,671	17,058
Malayalam	24,450	0.0122	2,281	22,169
Marathi	24,280	0.0122	2,896	21,384
Nepali	18,743	0.0094	3,943	14,800
Gujarati	15,442	0.0077	6,708	8,734
Tamil	14,444	0.0072	978	13,466
Telugu	13,977	0.0070	1,015	12,962
Assamese	10,356	0.0052	2,489	7,867
Kannada	6,435	0.0032	1,340	5,095
Kashmiri	6,123	0.0031	120	6,003
Gondi	5,768	0.0029	5,592	176
Kurukh/Oraon	4,495	0.0022	3,793	702
Sanskrit	3,062	0.0015	1,394	1,668
Dogri	2,695	0.0013	269	2,426

Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Disability

1.4 million population are suffering with disability in the state of uttar pradesh, out of which more than 700 thousand people with seeing, hearing and speech problems. More than 60,000 with the mental relative illness. Disable population of Uttar Pradesh as per table below:

Type of disability	Total Persons	Cultivators	Agriculture labor	HHI	Other workers
Total disabled population	1,446,393	391,424	432,259	100,898	521,812
In Seeing	264,611	74,784	78,786	17,099	93,942
In Hearing	372,949	98,353	107,489	28,882	138,225
In Speech	96,234	26,945	28,375	6,963	33,951
In Movement	243,893	66,984	68,881	15,761	92,267
Mental Retardation	45,770	12,849	16,684	2,573	13,664
Mental Illness	16,861	4,898	6,022	960	4,981
Any Other	361,086	93,598	112,207	25,279	130,002
Multiple disability	44,989	13,013	13,815	3,381	14,780

Source: 2011 Census: Distribution of Disabled(India & States/UTs)

Uttar Pradesh Population projection

According to UID, Uttar Pradesh population in 2022 is estimated to be 233.29 million (23.32 Crores), and in 2021 is estimated to be 230.9 million (23.09 Crores), population in 2020 is estimated to be 237 million (23.7 Crores) and population in 2023 is estimated to be 236 million (23.6 Crores).

Income Distribution

Uttar Pradesh is second largest State in terms of GDP, accounts to $220 billion in 2018. Agriculture, Handloom, manufacturing and tourism are the key areas of the UP economy. Besides high GDP in the state, it currently struggles with poverty level of 30%, close to 67 millions with per capita income of $810 in 2018 which is ranked at 32(lowest) in India. The states average literacy rate is 67.7% which is below to the India's average of 74%. The literacy rate of men is 79% and women is 59%.

District wise population in Uttar Pradesh

The State is being divided into 75 districts, Allahabad with 6.6 million and 8 districts of Lucknow, Moradabad, Ghaziabad, Sitapur, Kanpur, Azamgarh, Jaunpur with more than 5 million population. Below table is the Uttar Pradesh district wise population.

District	Population(2020 est.)	Population(2011)	Percentage
Saharanpur	3,951,675	3,466,382	1.73
Muzaffarnagar	4,723,604	4,143,512	2.07
Bijnor	4,198,293	3,682,713	1.84
Moradabad	5,440,087	4,772,006	2.39
Rampur	2,662,834	2,335,819	1.17
Jyotiba Phule Nagar	2,097,852	1,840,221	0.92
Meerut	3,925,805	3,443,689	1.72
Baghpat	1,485,475	1,303,048	0.65
Ghaziabad	5,337,075	4,681,645	2.34
Gautam Buddha Nagar	1,878,851	1,648,115	0.82
Bulandshahr	3,989,055	3,499,171	1.75
Aligarh	4,188,233	3,673,889	1.84
Mahamaya Nagar	1,783,767	1,564,708	0.78
Mathura	2,903,790	2,547,184	1.27
Agra	5,037,429	4,418,797	2.21
Firozabad	2,847,898	2,498,156	1.25
Mainpuri	2,130,123	1,868,529	0.94
Budaun	4,197,361	3,681,896	1.84
Bareilly	5,071,129	4,448,359	2.23
Pilibhit	2,315,348	2,031,007	1.02
Shahjahanpur	3,427,453	3,006,538	1.50
Kheri	4,584,217	4,021,243	2.01
Sitapur	5,111,751	4,483,992	2.24
Hardoi	4,665,843	4,092,845	2.05
Unnao	3,543,538	3,108,367	1.56
Lucknow	5,232,415	4,589,838	2.30
Rae Bareli	3,882,337	3,405,559	1.70
Farrukhabad	2,149,133	1,885,204	0.94
Kannauj	1,888,542	1,656,616	0.83
Etawah	1,803,263	1,581,810	0.79
Auraiya	1,572,681	1,379,545	0.69
Kanpur Dehat	2,047,650	1,796,184	0.90
Kanpur Nagar	5,222,646	4,581,268	2.29
Jalaun	1,926,570	1,689,974	0.85
Jhansi	2,278,407	1,998,603	1.00
Lalitpur	1,392,615	1,221,592	0.61
Hamirpur	1,258,885	1,104,285	0.55
Mahoba	998,592	875,958	0.44
Banda	2,051,327	1,799,410	0.90
Chitrakoot	1,130,572	991,730	0.50
Fatehpur	3,001,316	2,632,733	1.32
Pratapgarh	3,658,421	3,209,141	1.61
Kaushambi	1,823,539	1,599,596	0.80
Allahabad	6,788,006	5,954,391	2.98
Bara Banki	3,717,197	3,260,699	1.63
Faizabad	2,816,935	2,470,996	1.24
Ambedkar Nagar	2,733,592	2,397,888	1.20
Sultanpur	4,328,713	3,797,117	1.90
Bahraich	3,976,013	3,487,731	1.75
Shrawasti	1,273,792	1,117,361	0.56
Balrampur	2,449,478	2,148,665	1.08
Gonda	3,914,668	3,433,919	1.72
Siddharthnagar	2,917,599	2,559,297	1.28
Basti	2,809,489	2,464,464	1.23
Sant Kabir Nagar	1,955,309	1,715,183	0.86
Mahrajganj	3,060,561	2,684,703	1.34
Gorakhpur	5,062,620	4,440,895	2.22
Kushinagar	4,063,580	3,564,544	1.78
Deoria	3,535,078	3,100,946	1.55
Azamgarh	5,259,861	4,613,913	2.31
Mau	2,514,804	2,205,968	1.10
Ballia	3,693,342	3,239,774	1.62
Jaunpur	5,123,393	4,494,204	2.25
Ghazipur	4,127,106	3,620,268	1.81
Chandauli	2,226,142	1,952,756	0.98
Varanasi	4,191,599	3,676,841	1.84
Sant Ravidas Nagar (Bhadohi)	1,799,163	1,578,213	0.79
Mirzapur	2,846,546	2,496,970	1.25
Sonbhadra	2,123,317	1,862,559	0.93
Etah	2,022,907	1,774,480	0.89
Kanshiram Nagar	1,637,860	1,436,719	0.72