With one-sixth of the global population, Indian population has become the largest on earth. India will surpass China as the country with the greatest population in the world by the end of April 2023. According to UN estimates, with a population of 1,425,775,850.
India is home to more than 2000 ethnic groups, every major religion, four major language families. 700,000 citizens of the United States live in India, where there are 1,000,000 Anglo-Indians. They make up more than 0.1% of India’s overall population. The linguistic, genetic, and cultural diversity of the country of India is, overall, only surpassed by the continent of Africa.
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India houses more than 18% of the world’s population yet taking up only 2.41% of its total land area. Approximately 638,000 villages were home to 72.2% of the population as of the 2001 Census, while the remaining 27.8% of the population resided in more than 5,100 towns and more than 380 urban agglomerations.
Indian population has 200 million more inhabitants than the whole continent of Africa combined.