Maharashtra Population

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Maharashtra is the third most urbanized state among other states since before independence. As per 1901 census 19 million were recorded in the state. The average population growth was 24.81 for the fifty years after the Indian Census from 1951 - 2001. The population growth was decreased to 15.99% in 2011 while it was 22.73% compared to 2001.

Population Pyramid

Maharashtra Population by Religion

Hindu is the largest religion in Maharashtra religion wise population with 79.83% of 89 million population, followed by Muslim with 11.54% of 12.9 million, 5.81% with Buddhism of 6.5 million and other 2.82% is shared by other religions like Christianity(0.96%), Sikhism(0.2%) and Jainism(1.25%). The total Muslim population is 12.9 Million is the second largest after Hindu 89.7 Million, followed by Buddhist Jains of 1.4 Millions, Christians of 1 Million, Sikhs with 223,247 and 6.5 Millions.

Ethnic groups

Literacy

As per the census 2011, literacy rate in the Maharashtra State is 82.3% against 74% at national level. It is 88.4% and 75.9% for males and females respectively. At national level, it is 82.14% for males and 65.46% for females.

Languages spoken in Maharashtra

Marathi is the largest language speakers in Maharashtra State with 68.9%, total 77 million people speak the language followed by Hindi with 14 million(12.8%) and Urdu with 7.5 million(6.7%). Other 11.6% shares with many other Indian languages due to other and neighboring states migration. Gujarati's and Bhili's are more than 2 million each, Khandeshi, Telugu and Kannnada are more than 1 million each speaks their native language.

Disability

Below table illustrates the disable population stats of Maharashtra.

Population projection

According to UID, Maharashtra population in 2022 is estimated to be 125.5 Million (12.55 Crores), in 2021 is estimated to be 124.7 Million (12.47 Crores), and in 2020 is estimated to be 123 Million (12.3 Crores)

Income Distribution

The rural population of the State living in 40,959 villages was 55 percent with agriculture as the key income area, major crops are Jowar, Wheat, Cereals, Cotton and Sugarcane. Maharashtra districts has many industrial corridors, Services sector being the largest share of 51.1%, followed by manufacturing industry sector with 31% and agriculture with 17.9% are the income areas for the state.

District wise population in Maharashtra

Maharashtra has 36 districts, divided into six revenue divisions for administrative purposes including Pune, Konkan, Aurangabad, Nashik, Amravati and Nagpur. Thane district is having the highest population with 12 million, followed by Mumbai Suburban and Pune with 10 million each. Below is the Maharashtra district wise population as per Census 2011 and 2020 projection. By 2011 55% is the rural population living in towns, villages and 45% is the urban population living in cities, currently there are 355 tehsils and 534 towns in this state. Total 40,959 are Inhabited Villages and 2706 are Un-Inhabited villages of the total population.