Tripura Population 2025

Tripura is the north-eastern state in India, borders 3 sides by Bangladesh to the west, north, south, and Mizoram and Assam on the eastern side. Geographically it is hill ranges, valleys and plains, total area is 10,491 sq km. and is third smallest state, and area rank is 26th in India behind Goa and Sikkim, forests cover more than half of the area. Tripura population in 2025 is estimated to be 4.16 million (41.6 Lakhs), By Aug 2023, Tripura population is projected to be 41.47 Lakhs as per Unique Identification Aadhar India, updated 31, May 2023. As per NFHS 2019-2021 report, Total Fertility Rate of Tripura State is 1.7 children per women compared to 1.7 in 2016. Tripura being gifted with lush green landscape, and its ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. It's home to the indigenous tribals, As per 2011 census the indigenous tribals of Tripura comprising a total of 19 communities, which constitute of 31% of the state's population while 69.95% are non-tribals mostly Bengalis. Regarding the tribal population in Tripura, Some of the tribals originally moved from neighbouring hill regions. The Tripuri constitute more than half the tribal community. Other prominent tribal groups include the Chakma, Halam, Reang, Garo, Lusai,Marma, Bhils, Santhals, Mundas and Oraons.

Census year	Persons	Absolute	Percentage	Males	Females
1901	173,325	-	-	92,495	80,830
1911	229,613	56,288	32.48	121,820	107,793
1921	304,437	74,824	32.59	161,515	142,922
1931	382,450	78,013	25.63	202,932	179,518
1941	513,010	130,560	34.14	272,025	240,985
1951	639,029	126,019	24.56	335,589	303,440
1961	1,142,005	502,976	78.71	591,237	550,768
1971	1,556,342	414,337	36.28	801,126	755,216
1981	2,053,058	496,716	31.92	1,054,846	998,212
1991	2,757,205	704,147	34.3	1,417,930	1,339,275
2001	3,199,203	441,998	16.03	1,642,225	1,556,978
2011	3,673,917	474,714	14.84	1,874,376	1,799,541

Source: A-2 Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901

Population Pyramid

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

Tripura Population by Religion

Tripura population religion wise, While Hinduism continues to be the religious faith of majority population wiht 83%, followed by Muslim population with 8%, Christian with 4.3% and Buddhist with 3.4%. Chakma and Mogh's are Buddhist most originally moved to Tripura from various hill regions in neighbouring districts like Chittagong district.

Religion	Persons	Percentage	Males	Females
Hindu	3,063,903	83.40	1,563,730	1,500,173
Muslim	316,042	8.60	160,930	155,112
Christian	159,882	4.35	81,480	78,402
Sikh	1,070	0.03	782	288
Buddhist	125,385	3.41	63,545	61,840
Jain	860	0.02	453	407
Others	1,514	0.04	791	723
Not Stated	5,261	0.14	2,665	2,596

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

Ethnic groups of Tripura

Different tribes of Tripura are Tripuri, Bhil, Bhutias, Chakma, Chaimal, Garo, Halam, Jamatia, Khasihia, Kuki, Lepcha, Lushai, Mog, Munda, Noatia, Orang, Reang, Santal, Uchui.
Major 16 sub-clans of Halams are Kaloi, Kor-Bong, Keipeng, Bong, Saka Chep, Thanga chep, Dab, Bongser, Rupini, Hrangkhawl, Chorai, Langai, Kaireng, Ranglong, Naveen and Khulang.
the tribes of Tripura and their population as per census 2011 are:

Tribes	Population as per Census 2011
All Scheduled Tribes	1,166,813
Bhil	3,105
Bhutia	28
Chaimal	549
Chakma	79,813
Garoo	12,952
Halam, Bengshel, Dub, Kaipeng, Kalai, Karbong, Lengui, Mussum, Rupini, Sukuchep, Thangchep	57,210
Jamatia	83,347
Khasia	366
Kuki, including the following sub-tribes:	10,965
Lepcha	157
Lushai	5,384
Mag	37,893
Munda, Kaur	14,544
Noatia, Murashing	14,298
Orang	12,011
Riang	188,220
Santal	2,913
Tripura, Tripuri, Tippera	592,255
Uchai	2,447
Generic Tribes etc.	48,356

Languages spoken in Tripura

Language wise population, The main Tripura language is Tripuri, spoken by tribals, used to be most widely spoken language before Independence as the migrants and some tribals moved from the neighbouring hill stations. Today as on census 2011, Bengali is the widely spoken language in Tripura state, followed by Tripuri with 25.8%, Hindi with 2.1%. Mogh is spoken by 35,722 people, Halam with 23,089, Kurukh/Oraon with 7,145, Mizo with 5,639, Santali with 3,975 and Savara with 4,620, Munda with 9,644. Manipuri with 23,779, Bishnupuriya with 22,112, Odia with 25,967, Assamese with 2,129 and Telugu with 2,787 speakers.

Languages	Persons	Percentage	Rural	Urban
Bengali	2,414,774	65.7275	1,532,133	882,641
Tripuri	950,875	25.8818	915,423	35,452
Hindi	77,701	2.1149	56,503	21,198
Mogh	35,722	0.9723	34,895	827
Odia	25,967	0.7068	23,911	2,056
Manipuri	23,779	0.6472	16,894	6,885
Halam	23,089	0.6285	21,778	1,311
Bishnupuriya	22,112	0.6019	20,400	1,712
AO	19,316	0.5258	19,235	81
Munda	9,644	0.2625	9,570	74
Kurukh/Oraon	7,145	0.1945	6,785	360
Mizo	5,639	0.1535	5,389	250
Savara	4,620	0.1258	4,272	348
Santali	3,975	0.1082	3,864	111
Telugu	3,845	0.1047	3,398	447
Nepali	2,787	0.0759	961	1,826
Assamese	2,129	0.0579	1,041	1,088

Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Disability

Below table is the disable population of Tripura state.

Type of disability	Total Persons	Cultivators	Agriculture labor	HHI	Other workers
Total disabled population	21,627	3,905	4,637	690	12,395
In Seeing	3,853	715	796	125	2,217
In Hearing	5,407	1,046	1,186	162	3,013
In Speech	1,471	271	338	43	819
In Movement	3,772	553	688	107	2,424
Mental Retardation	985	210	273	29	473
Mental Illness	553	90	134	18	311
Any Other	4,622	855	1,011	175	2,581
Multiple disability	964	165	211	31	557

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

Tripura Population projection

Tripura population in 2023 is estimated to be 4.15 million, population in 2022 is estimated to be 4.11 million (41.1 Lakhs), population in 2021 is estimated to be 4.07 million (40.7 Lakhs), According to UID, population in 2020 is estimated to be 4 million (41 Lakhs).

District wise population in Tripura

As on 2012, For administrative purposes, the state has been divided into 8 districts which includes 4 new districts Sipahijala, Khowai, Gomati and Unakoti. Below is the Tripura district wise population as per Census 2011 and 2020 projection.

District	Population(2020 est.)	Population(2011)	Percentage
West Tripura	1,045,989	917,534	24.97
South Tripura	494,460	433,737	11.81
Dhalai	430,906	377,988	10.29
North Tripura	474,178	415,946	11.32
Unakoti	316,162	277,335	7.55
Khowai	373,226	327,391	8.91
Sipahijala	552,026	484,233	13.18
Gomati	498,030	436,868	11.89