Jharkhand Population 2024

February 19, 2024 by Babji

Jharkhand is the state in eastern India, borders West Bengal to the east, Odisha to the south, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh to the west, Bihar to the south. Jharkhand state was carved out from Bihar in November 2000, The word 'Jhar' means forest and 'Khand' means region or land or therefore land of forest. Jharkhand population in 2024 is 39.7 million (3.97 Crores) as per the estimates. By Aug 2023, Jharkhand population is projected to be 3.94 Crores as per Unique Identification Aadhar India, updated 31, May 2023. As per NFHS 2019-2021 report, Total Fertility Rate of Jharkhand State is 2.3 children per women compared to 2.6 in 2016. Jharkhand is popular for its rich minerals, hills, waterfalls, holy places and mountains.

Census year	Persons	Absolute	Percentage	Males	Females
1901	6,068,233	-	-	2,985,966	3,082,267
1911	6,747,122	678,889	11.19	3,338,629	3,408,493
1921	6,767,770	20,648	0.31	3,380,905	3,386,865
1931	7,908,737	1,140,967	16.86	3,976,450	3,932,287
1941	8,868,069	959,332	12.13	4,483,780	4,384,289
1951	9,697,254	829,185	9.35	4,944,043	4,753,211
1961	11,606,489	1,909,235	19.69	5,921,901	5,684,588
1971	14,227,133	2,620,644	22.58	7,316,220	6,910,913
1981	17,612,069	3,384,936	23.79	9,080,444	8,531,625
1991	21,843,911	4,231,842	24.03	11,363,853	10,480,058
2001	26,945,829	5,101,918	23.36	13,885,037	13,060,792
2011	32,988,134	6,042,305	22.42	16,930,315	16,057,819

Source: A-2 Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901

Population Pyramid

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

Jharkhand Population by Religion

Jharkhand population religion wise, 68% belongs to Hindu, followed by 14.5% are Muslims, 4.3% are Christians, Sikh, Buddhists and Jains accounts for total of below 1%. The total muslim population of Jharkhand is 4.7 million ranks at second place after 22 million of Hindus.

Religion	Persons	Percentage	Males	Females
Hindu	22,376,051	67.83	11,563,951	10,812,100
Muslim	4,793,994	14.53	2,467,219	2,326,775
Christian	1,418,608	4.30	699,902	718,706
Sikh	71,422	0.22	38,189	33,233
Buddhist	8,956	0.03	5,217	3,739
Jain	14,974	0.05	7,763	7,211
Others	4,235,786	12.84	2,113,699	2,122,087
Not Stated	68,343	0.21	34,375	33,968

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

Ethnic groups of Jharkhand

Tribes	Population as per Census 2011
All Scheduled Tribes	8,645,042
Asur, Agaria	22,459
Baiga	3,582
Banjara	487
Bathudi	3,464
Bedia	100,161
Binjhia	14,404
Birhor	10,726
Birjia	6,276
Chero	95,575
Chik Baraik	54,163
Gond	53,676
Gorait	4,973
Ho	928,289
Karmali	64,154
Kharia, Dhelki Kharia, Dudh Kharia, Hill Kharia	196,135
Kharwar	248,974
Khond	221
Kisan, Nagesia	37,265
Kora, Mudi -Kora	32,786
Korwa	35,606
Lohra	216,226
Mahli	152,663
Mal Paharia, Kumarbhag Paharia	135,797
Munda, Patar	1,229,221
Oraon, Dhangar (Oraon)	1,716,618
Parhaiya	25,585
Santal	2,754,723
Sauria Paharia	46,222
Savar	9,688
Bhumij	209,448
Kawar	8,145
Kol	53,584
Generic Tribes etc.	173,746

Languages spoken in Jharkhand

Hindi is the major language spoken by 62%, followed by Santali with 10%, Bengali with 9.7% and Urdu with 6% of population. HO spoken by 3%, The different dialects as per different include Nagpuri, Khortha, Kurmali, Magahi and Bhojpuri.

Languages	Persons	Percentage	Rural	Urban
Hindi	20,436,026	61.9496	15,065,889	5,370,137
Santali	3,269,897	9.9123	3,101,534	168,363
Bengali	3,213,423	9.7411	2,428,466	784,957
Urdu	1,965,652	5.9587	1,061,383	904,269
HO	994,302	3.0141	904,657	89,645
Kurukh/Oraon	952,164	2.8864	867,540	84,624
Mundari	942,108	2.8559	867,023	75,085
Odia	531,077	1.6099	374,014	157,063
Malto	151,565	0.4595	151,007	558
Kharia	140,148	0.4248	130,386	9,762
Maithili	138,167	0.4188	18,669	119,498
Punjabi	78,712	0.2386	2,815	75,897
Telugu	30,704	0.0931	1,409	29,295
Munda	23,907	0.0725	22,089	1,818
Gujarati	22,109	0.0670	8,205	13,904
Nepali	16,956	0.0514	1,402	15,554
Bhumij	11,275	0.0342	10,233	1,042
Tamil	10,061	0.0305	681	9,380
Marathi	8,481	0.0257	4,182	4,299
Malayalam	6,549	0.0199	711	5,838
Koda/Kora	3,321	0.0101	3,302	19
Korwa	2,341	0.0071	1,740	601

Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Disability

Below is the Jharkhand disable people stats as per table below.

Type of disability	Total Persons	Cultivators	Agriculture labor	HHI	Other workers
Total disabled population	290,133	79,453	103,768	12,571	94,341
In Seeing	71,801	19,326	26,564	3,222	22,689
In Hearing	71,462	19,975	25,401	2,995	23,091
In Speech	17,450	4,293	6,057	738	6,362
In Movement	53,178	15,648	17,238	2,268	18,024
Mental Retardation	10,953	2,987	4,607	416	2,943
Mental Illness	5,514	1,554	2,273	369	1,318
Any Other	47,897	12,015	17,095	2,056	16,731
Multiple disability	11,878	3,655	4,533	507	3,183

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

Jharkhand Population projection

Jharkhand population in 2023 is 39.5 million, population in 2022 is 39 million (3.9 Crores), population in 2021 is 39 million (3.9 Crores), According to UID, population in 2020 is 38 million.

Income Distribution

Jharkhand is among those states which have high percentage of rural poverty. Jharkhand at the time of formation in the year 2000 was lagged behind the economic growth compared to the all India average of the country. About 50% of workforce in this state is dependent on Agriculture and Allied farming activites. Besides this the other area is, Minerals are the biggest source of revenue to the Jharkhand State and is known as Museum of Minerals from Coal to Industrial Minerals like Uranium, Copper, Kyanite and many other semi precious minerals. By 2015-16, the GDP has improved to 1.84%.

District wise population in Jharkhand

Below is the Jharkhand district wise population as per Census 2011 and 2020 projection. Jharkhand is divided into 24 districts, initially Jharkhand is formed with 18 districts in the year 2000, later six more districts were carved out to form these districts.

District	Population(2020 est.)	Population(2011)	Percentage
Garhwa	1,507,974	1,322,784	4.01
Chatra	1,188,890	1,042,886	3.16
Kodarma	816,535	716,259	2.17
Giridih	2,787,840	2,445,474	7.41
Deoghar	1,700,963	1,492,073	4.52
Godda	1,497,448	1,313,551	3.98
Sahibganj	1,311,646	1,150,567	3.49
Pakur	1,026,481	900,422	2.73
Dhanbad	3,060,315	2,684,487	8.14
Bokaro	2,351,056	2,062,330	6.25
Lohardaga	526,441	461,790	1.40
Purbi Singhbhum	2,615,068	2,293,919	6.95
Palamu	2,211,451	1,939,869	5.88
Latehar	828,755	726,978	2.20
Hazaribagh	1,977,324	1,734,495	5.26
Ramgarh	1,082,365	949,443	2.88
Dumka	1,506,444	1,321,442	4.01
Jamtara	901,788	791,042	2.40
Ranchi	3,322,248	2,914,253	8.83
Khunti	606,349	531,885	1.61
Gumla	1,168,743	1,025,213	3.11
Simdega	683,519	599,578	1.82
Pashchimi Singhbhum	1,712,665	1,502,338	4.55
Saraikela-Kharsawan	1,214,164	1,065,056	3.23