Hyderabad Population 2024

January 26, 2024 by Babji

Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana state, sixth largest city and located in the southern part of India. As per the estimates of UN World Population Prospects, Hyderabad Population in 2024 is 11.36 Million (1.136 Crore). Hyderabad and Secunderabad are the two twin cities partitioned by Hussain sagar lake, popularly called Tank Bund. Hyderabad city has many names like Pearl City, Biryani City, Hi-tech City and Cyberabad. Hyderabad was the capital for both Telugu states from 1956 to 2014 before bifurcation in 2014. From year 1990-2000, City of Hyderabad expanded from 170 sq km. to an area of 650 sq km, and has a population of 10,004,144 making it the sixth most populous city in India, in 2007 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) was formed. It is estimated to be 30 to 35% of migrants coming from different parts of India, made this city as their home due to work prosperous of Industrial, IT and Pharma sector. The Hyderabad state used to be princely state, is in the Telangana region and joined the Union of India in year of 1948 after an military invasion as a part of merging process. In 1956, the Hyderabad State was dissolved as part of the linguistic reorganisation of states, Hyderabad and Telangana was merged with the Telugu speaking Andhra State to form Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad was made capital to Andhra Pradesh till bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in 2014. From 2014 Hyderabad is serving as capital of Telangana. As per data from Regional Transport Authority (RTA), by 2023, there are are over 70 lakh personal vehicles registered in the regions of Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri districts, with 56.9 lakh two-wheelers and 14.1 lakh four-wheelers vehicles.

Contents
Population Ranking
Languages
Religion
History

Hyderabad city UN Urban Agglomeration Population Prospects - 1950 to 2035

Year	Hyderabad Population
1950	1,096,320
1955	1,178,673
1960	1,240,514
1965	1,460,111
1970	1,748,395
1975	2,085,893
1980	2,487,040
1985	3,209,443
1990	4,192,578
1995	4,908,133
2000	5,650,076
2005	6,521,705
2010	7,531,293
2011	7,751,240
2015	8,697,166
2020*	10,004,144
2025*	11,337,852
2035*	14,151,724

Source: population.un.org/wpp/, 1950 to 2035 Hyderabad city Population(UA)

Hyderabad Population in 2023 is 11.06 Million (1.106 Crore), population in 2022 is 10.6 million (1.06 Crore), and in 2021 is 10.2 million (1.02 Crore), Hyderabad has an average elevation of 500 meters above sea level. Hyderabad places and buildings reflects a blend of Hindu and Muslim styles. Many of the suburbs close to Hyderabad have been merged into the city after 2000, now called Greater Hyderabad. Popular and more populated places are central to hyderabad are Ameerpet, S.R. Nagar, Erragadda, Banjara Hills, Jublie Hills, Raj Bhavan, Somajiguda, Begumpet, Nampally, Charminar and Khairatabad. Popular places in the north side of Hyderabad are Sanathnagar, Bowenpally, Moosapet, Balanagar, Pathan Cheru, BHEL township and Chanda Nagar, Kukatpally, Lingampally and Nizampet. Places on the north-east side are Malkajgiri, Sainikpuri, Osmania University, Tarnaka, Habsiguda, Marredpally, Bowenpally, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad Cantonment Board and Uppal.

Hyderabad Population Ranking & Density

	Hyderabad City(2011)	Hyderabad UA(2020)
Population	7.7 million	10 million
Area	650 sq km	7,257 sq km
Rank	6 (India)	34 (World)

As per the 2001 census, the net migrants to Hyderabad UA are 407,861 from within state. 88,216 from other states of India, 2,406 from other countries. Total Migrants are 498,483 from the last 10 years from 1991 to 2001. Hyderabad Population in 2020 is estimated to be 10 Million (1 Crore).

Religion wise Hyderabad Population

Hyderabad is home to many religions, Hinduism and Islam are the major relgions, According to 2011 census, Hindu population is 4.5 million, followed by 2.1 million with Muslim population. The Christians in Hyderabad are 192,660 people, 17,303 are Sikhs, 20,480 are Jain people and 2,451 are Buddhists.

Religion	Persons	Percentage	Males	Females
Hindu	4,540,841	64.93	2,324,389	2,216,452
Muslim	2,107,047	30.13	1,081,026	1,026,021
Christian	192,660	2.75	95,814	96,846
Sikh	17,303	0.25	9,117	8,186
Buddhist	2,451	0.04	1,319	1,132
Jain	20,480	0.29	10,458	10,022
Others	3,137	0.04	1,629	1,508
Not Stated	109,343	1.56	52,888	56,455

Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Hyderabad Language demographics

Telugu and Urdu are the widely spoken languages of Hyderabad people. People from various parts of country have made the city their home, such as Gujaratis, Sikhs, Bengalis, Maharastians, Tamils, Kannadigas adn Coastal Andraites.

Disability

Below is the disable population stats of Hyderabad.

Type of disability	Total Persons	Males	Females
In Seeing	66,930	35,257	31,673
In Hearing	70,412	36,754	33,658
In Speech	28,077	15,990	12,087
In Movement	20,348	12,716	7,632
Mental Retardation	11,119	6,213	4,906
Mental Illness	3,235	1,876	1,359
Others	83,257	44,785	38,472
Total disabled population	294,072	159,490	134,582

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

Hyderabad Population age wise

According to Census 2011, the age group of 0-4 years, 304,736 are Male and 280,284 are Females. Between 5-9 years, 315,995 are Male and 293,816 are Females and between 20 to 30 years , 704,349 are male and 760,827 are females.

Hyderabad History

Hyderabad City was founded by the Qutub Shahi,the fifth king of the sultan of Golconda in 1591 with estimated population of around on the east bank of the Musi River. As on 1897 San Francisco call, the population in 1897 was estimated to be 415,039, fourth largest in India after Bombay(821,764), Calcutta(771,144) and Madras(452,518). The name Hyderabad was believed to have its earlier name "Bhagyanagar", named after Bhagmati, the mistress, Telugu courtesan of Quli Qutb Shah, But changing from Bhagyanagar to Hyderabad is unknown. A famous bangles market near to Charminar, also called Laad Bazaar, Products like siverware, Kalamari paintings, artivacts, silk and cotton ware have been traded in the city for centuries.