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The demographics of Uttar Pradesh is a complex topic, which is undergoing dynamic change. Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state, and the largest subdivision in the world. It has a population of about 199,812,341[1] as per the 2011 census. If it were a separate country, Uttar Pradesh would be the world's fifth most populous nation, next only to China, the rest of India, the United States of America and Indonesia. Uttar Pradesh has a population more than that of Pakistan.[2] There is an average population density of 828 persons per km2 i.e. 2,146 per sq mi. The capital of Uttar Pradesh is Lucknow, and Prayagraj serves as the state’s judicial capital. Hindus and Muslims both consider the state as a holy place.

The peripheral regions of Uttar Pradesh, are home to a number of tribal communities such as Agaria, Baiga, Bhar, Bhoksa, Bind, Chero, Gond, Kol and Korwa. Five of these tribal communities have been recognised by the Government of India as disadvantaged scheduled tribes, viz. Tharus, Boksas, Bhotias, Jaunswaris and Rajis.[3] The literacy rate of the state according to the 2011 Census is 70.69%. With the literacy rate for Males at 79.20%, while it is 59.30% for the Females. While this is still below the national average of 74.04% (82.14% for men, 65.16% for women) the rate of growth has been much higher in Uttar Pradesh as compared to the rest of India.

District

As of the 2011 census, Prayagraj is the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh while Mahoba being the least populated. Only 3 districts of Jaunpur, Azamgarh and Deoria have a sex ratio greater than 1000 while Gautam Buddha Nagar stands lowest in the tally with a very low ratio of 851. On the contrary, Gautam Buddha Nagar scores highest in literacy rate at 80.12% and Kanpur Nagar 2nd at 79.54%, while both being the poorest districts in terms of sex-ratio, depicting a negative-correlation among literacy and sex-ratio in this case. The districts of Srawasti, Bahraich and Balrampur have yet to cross the 50% literacy mark.

The following table enumerates population, sex-ratio and literacy rates for each district of Uttar Pradesh:

District-wise demographics of Uttar Pradesh (2011 Census)[4]
District Population Sex ratio Literacy
Total Male Female Total Male Female
Gautam Buddha Nagar 1648115 890214 757901 851 0.8012 0.8806 0.7082
Kanpur Nagar 4581268 2459806 2121462 862 0.7965 0.8362 0.7505
Auraiya 1379545 740040 639505 864 0.7895 0.8611 0.7061
Etawah 1581810 845856 735954 870 0.7841 0.8606 0.6961
Ghaziabad 4681645 2488834 2192811 881 0.7807 0.8542 0.6979
Lucknow 4589838 2394476 2195362 917 0.7729 0.8256 0.7154
Mainpuri 1868529 993377 875152 881 0.7599 0.8453 0.663
Kanpur Dehat 1796184 963255 832929 865 0.7578 0.8345 0.6686
Varanasi 3676841 1921857 1754984 913 0.756 0.8378 0.6669
Jhansi 1998603 1057436 941167 890 0.7505 0.8538 0.6349
Jaunpur 4494204 2220465 2273739 1024 0.74 0.838 0.5981
Jalaun 1689974 906092 783882 865 0.7375 0.8348 0.6246
Mau 2205968 1114709 1091259 979 0.7309 0.8245 0.6363
Meerut 3443689 1825743 1617946 886 0.7284 0.8074 0.6398
Kannauj 1656616 881776 774840 879 0.727 0.8091 0.6333
Prayagraj 5954391 3131807 2822584 901 0.7232 0.8255 0.6099
Ambedkar Nagar 2397888 1212410 1185478 978 0.7223 0.8166 0.6266
Baghpat 1303048 700070 602978 861 0.7201 0.8245 0.5995
Firozabad 2498156 1332046 1166110 875 0.7192 0.8082 0.6175
Ghazipur 3620268 1855075 1765193 952 0.7178 0.828 0.6029
Mahamaya Nagar 1564708 836127 728581 871 0.7159 0.8238 0.5923
Agra 4418797 2364953 2053844 868 0.7158 0.8062 0.6118
Chandauli 1952756 1017905 934851 918 0.7148 0.8172 0.6035
Deoria 3100946 1537436 1563510 1017 0.7113 0.8327 0.5938
Ballia 3239774 1672902 1566872 937 0.7094 0.8149 0.5975
Azamgarh 4613913 2285004 2328909 1019 0.7093 0.8134 0.6091
Gorakhpur 4440895 2277777 2163118 950 0.7083 0.818 0.5936
Etah 1774480 947339 827141 873 0.7081 0.8128 0.588
Saharanpur 3466382 1834106 1632276 890 0.7049 0.7828 0.6174
Mathura 2547184 1367125 1180059 863 0.7036 0.8197 0.5689
Pratapgarh 3209141 1606085 1603056 998 0.7009 0.8188 0.5845
Sultanpur 3797117 1914586 1882531 983 0.6927 0.8019 0.5828
Muzaffarnagar 4143512 2193434 1950078 889 0.6912 0.7844 0.5869
Farrukhabad 1885204 1006240 878964 874 0.6904 0.774 0.5944
Sant Ravidas Nagar (Bhadohi) 1578213 807099 771114 955 0.6897 0.8147 0.5603
Bulandshahr 3499171 1845260 1653911 896 0.6888 0.8093 0.5557
Hamirpur 1104285 593537 510748 861 0.6877 0.7976 0.5595
Faizabad 2470996 1259628 1211368 962 0.6873 0.7812 0.5903
Mirzapur 2496970 1312302 1184668 903 0.6848 0.7897 0.5686
Bijnor 3682713 1921215 1761498 917 0.6848 0.7656 0.5972
Aligarh 3673889 1951996 1721893 882 0.6751 0.7797 0.5568
Fatehpur 2632733 1384722 1248011 901 0.6743 0.7719 0.5658
Rae Bareli 3405559 1752542 1653017 943 0.6725 0.7763 0.5629
Basti 2464464 1255272 1209192 963 0.6722 0.7788 0.5623
Sant Kabir Nagar 1715183 869656 845527 972 0.6672 0.7839 0.548
Banda 1799410 965876 833534 863 0.6667 0.7778 0.5367
Unnao 3108367 1630087 1478280 907 0.6637 0.7505 0.5676
Mahoba 875958 466358 409600 878 0.6527 0.7583 0.5322
Kushinagar 3564544 1818055 1746489 961 0.6525 0.7771 0.5236
Chitrakoot 991730 527721 464009 879 0.6505 0.758 0.5274
Hardoi 4092845 2191442 1901403 868 0.6457 0.7439 0.5319
Sonbhadra 1862559 971344 891215 918 0.6403 0.7492 0.5214
Jyotiba Phule Nagar 1840221 963449 876772 910 0.6384 0.7454 0.521
Lalitpur 1221592 641011 580581 906 0.6352 0.7498 0.5084
Mahrajganj 2684703 1381754 1302949 943 0.6276 0.7585 0.4892
Bara Banki 3260699 1707073 1553626 910 0.6175 0.7027 0.5234
Pilibhit 2031007 1072002 959005 895 0.6147 0.717 0.5
Kaushambi 1599596 838485 761111 908 0.6128 0.7278 0.4856
Sitapur 4483992 2375264 2108728 888 0.6112 0.7031 0.5067
Kanshiram Nagar 1436719 764165 672554 880 0.6102 0.7156 0.49
Kheri 4021243 2123187 1898056 894 0.6056 0.6957 0.5042
Shahjahanpur 3006538 1606403 1400135 872 0.5954 0.6818 0.4957
Siddharthnagar 2559297 1295095 1264202 976 0.5925 0.7092 0.4741
Gonda 3433919 1787146 1646773 921 0.5871 0.6941 0.4709
Bareilly 4448359 2357665 2090694 887 0.5849 0.675 0.483
Moradabad 4772006 2503186 2268820 906 0.5677 0.6483 0.4786
Rampur 2335819 1223889 1111930 909 0.5334 0.614 0.4444
Budaun 3681896 1967759 1714137 871 0.5129 0.6098 0.4009
Balrampur 2148665 1114721 1033944 928 0.4951 0.5973 0.3843
Bahraich 3487731 1843884 1643847 892 0.4936 0.5834 0.3918
Shrawasti 1117361 593897 523464 881 0.4674 0.5716 0.3478
Uttar Pradesh 199812341 104480510 95331831 912 0.6768 0.7728 0.5718

Rank of districts

Population Growth
YearPop.±%
195160,274,000—    
196170,144,000+16.4%
197183,849,000+19.5%
1981105,137,000+25.4%
1991132,062,000+25.6%
2001166,198,000+25.8%
2011199,581,477+20.1%
2018227,920,005+14.2%
Source: Census of India[5]

Following rankings are as per Population Census 2011.[6]

By area
  1. Lakhimpur Kheri - 8,780
  2. Sonbhadra - 6,999
  3. Hardoi - 5,986
  4. Bahraich - 5,745
  5. Sitapur - 5,743
By population
  1. Allahabad - 5,954,391
  2. Moradabad - 4,772,006
  3. Ghaziabad - 4,681,645
  4. Azamgarh - 4,613,913
  5. Lucknow - 4,589,838
  6. Kanpur Nagar - 4,581,268
  7. Jaunpur - 4,494,204
  8. Sitapur - 4,483,992
  9. Bareilly - 4,448,359
  10. Gorakhpur - 4,440,895

By population density

  1. Ghaziabad - 1995
  2. Varanasi - 1954
  3. Lucknow - 1456
  4. Sant Ravidas Nagar (Bhadohi) - 1409
  5. Kanpur Nagar - 1369

By literacy

  1. Gautam Budha Nagar(Noida) - 80.12%
  2. Kanpur Nagar - 79.65%
  3. Auraiya - 78.95%
  4. Etawah - 78.41%
  5. Ghaziabad - 78.07%

By sex ratio

  1. Jaunpur - 1024
  2. Azamgarh - 1018
  3. Deoria - 1003
  4. Mau - 984
  5. Pratapgarh - 982
  6. Ambedkar Nagar - 978
  7. Faizabad - 972
  8. Sultanpur - 965
  9. Basti - 963
  10. Sant Kabir Nagar - 960

Religion

In Uttar Pradesh the religion-wise percentage of population is Hindus 79.7, Muslims 19.3, Sikhs 0.3, Christians 0.2, Jains 0.1, Buddhists 0.1 while 0.3 of people have other religion or didn't state one.[6][7]

Religion in Uttar Pradesh
Religion 2001[8] 2011[9]
Hinduism 133,979,263 159,312,654
Islam 30,740,158 38,483,967
Sikhism n/a 643,500
Christianity 212,578 356,448
Jainism 207,111 213,267
Buddhism 302,031 206,285
Other 9,281 13,598
Not stated n/a 582,622
Total 166,197,921 199,812,341
Religion in Uttar Pradesh (%)
Religion 2001[8] 2011[8]
Hinduism 80.61 79.73
Islam 18.42 19.26
Sikhism 0.41 0.32
Christianity 0.13 0.18
Jainism 0.12 0.11
Buddhism 0.18 0.10
Other >0.01 >0.01
Not stated n/a 0.29
Religion-wise demographics of UP (2011 Census)[4]
Religion

Population

Sex ratio

Literacy rate

[i]

Male Female Total Male Female Total
Hindu 83,555,724 75,756,930 159,312,654 907 79.73% 58.61% 69.68%
Muslim 19,867,314 18,616,653 38,483,967 937 66.42% 50.59% 58.76%
Christian 182,838 173,610 356,448 950 79.44% 67.54% 73.63%
Sikh 341,451 302,049 643,500 885 84.91% 73.15% 79.35%
Buddhist 107,424 98,861 206,285 920 79.19% 57.07% 68.59%
Jain 110,994 102,273 213,267 921 95.81% 92.16% 94.05%
Other religions and persuasions 7,070 6,528 13,598 923 80.18% 61.30% 71.11%
Religion not stated 307,695 274,927 582,622 894 78.37% 60.84% 70.01%
Uttar Pradesh 104,480,510 95,331,831 199,812,341 912 77.28% 57.18% 67.68%
  1. ^ For Literacy rate, population aged 7 and above only is considered in India.

District-wise religious population

Population count for each district (with percentages[i]) as per 2011 Census.[4]

District-wise religious population
District Buddhist Christian Hindu Jain Muslim Sikh Other religions Religion not stated District Population
Count % Count % Count % Count % Count % Count % Count % Count %
Agra 4,049 0.09% 10,076 0.23% 3,922,718 88.77% 21,508 0.49% 411,313 9.31% 12,057 0.27% 384 0.01% 36,692 0.83% 4,418,797
Aligarh 2,582 0.07% 7,635 0.21% 2,904,140 79.05% 2,805 0.08% 729,283 19.85% 5,875 0.16% 91 0.00% 21,478 0.58% 3,673,889
Allahabad 4,391 0.07% 13,782 0.23% 5,102,041 85.69% 2,247 0.04% 796,756 13.38% 4,377 0.07% 305 0.01% 30,492 0.51% 5,954,391
Ambedkar Nagar 1,817 0.08% 2,536 0.11% 1,985,654 82.81% 235 0.01% 401,678 16.75% 869 0.04% 33 0.00% 5,066 0.21% 2,397,888
Auraiya 332 0.02% 1,004 0.07% 1,273,546 92.32% 228 0.02% 101,963 7.39% 371 0.03% 444 0.03% 1,657 0.12% 1,379,545
Azamgarh 5,652 0.12% 3,810 0.08% 3,878,626 84.06% 183 0.00% 718,692 15.58% 719 0.02% 226 0.00% 6,005 0.13% 4,613,913
Baghpat 161 0.01% 1,840 0.14% 917,474 70.41% 16,139 1.24% 364,583 27.98% 483 0.04% 25 0.00% 2,343 0.18% 1,303,048
Bahraich 2,793 0.08% 6,400 0.18% 2,291,892 65.71% 1,177 0.03% 1,169,330 33.53% 8,212 0.24% 38 0.00% 7,889 0.23% 3,487,731
Ballia 1,595 0.05% 4,463 0.14% 3,004,240 92.73% 233 0.01% 213,440 6.59% 892 0.03% 64 0.00% 14,847 0.46% 3,239,774
Balrampur 1,866 0.09% 3,228 0.15% 1,333,242 62.05% 198 0.01% 805,975 37.51% 900 0.04% 87 0.00% 3,169 0.15% 2,148,665
Banda 168 0.01% 1,367 0.08% 1,637,549 91.00% 916 0.05% 157,612 8.76% 231 0.01% 50 0.00% 1,517 0.08% 1,799,410
Bara Banki 1,553 0.05% 4,857 0.15% 2,505,444 76.84% 3,016 0.09% 737,106 22.61% 2,090 0.06% 211 0.01% 6,422 0.20% 3,260,699
Bareilly 4,371 0.10% 14,822 0.33% 2,830,768 63.64% 931 0.02% 1,536,534 34.54% 28,187 0.63% 339 0.01% 32,407 0.73% 4,448,359
Basti 9,753 0.40% 3,493 0.14% 2,082,976 84.52% 107 0.00% 364,510 14.79% 900 0.04% 99 0.00% 2,626 0.11% 2,464,464
Bijnor 1,736 0.05% 6,184 0.17% 2,032,081 55.18% 2,134 0.06% 1,585,210 43.04% 50,624 1.37% 41 0.00% 4,703 0.13% 3,682,713
Budaun 1,959 0.05% 6,320 0.17% 2,867,707 77.89% 678 0.02% 790,515 21.47% 1,135 0.03% 87 0.00% 13,495 0.37% 3,681,896
Bulandshahr 669 0.02% 4,088 0.12% 2,707,195 77.37% 1,572 0.04% 777,407 22.22% 2,765 0.08% 86 0.00% 5,389 0.15% 3,499,171
Chandauli 340 0.02% 2,153 0.11% 1,727,869 88.48% 100 0.01% 215,081 11.01% 1,389 0.07% 1,175 0.06% 4,649 0.24% 1,952,756
Chitrakoot 101 0.01% 693 0.07% 955,372 96.33% 285 0.03% 34,559 3.48% 63 0.01% 27 0.00% 630 0.06% 991,730
Deoria 1,182 0.04% 3,626 0.12% 2,730,957 88.07% 209 0.01% 358,539 11.56% 818 0.03% 146 0.00% 5,469 0.18% 3,100,946
Etah 2,887 0.16% 2,464 0.14% 1,611,126 90.79% 5,671 0.32% 146,346 8.25% 708 0.04% 18 0.00% 5,260 0.30% 1,774,480
Etawah 1,733 0.11% 1,362 0.09% 1,457,892 92.17% 3,917 0.25% 113,961 7.20% 1,045 0.07% 94 0.01% 1,806 0.11% 1,581,810
Faizabad 737 0.03% 3,225 0.13% 2,094,271 84.75% 358 0.01% 365,806 14.80% 1,912 0.08% 185 0.01% 4,502 0.18% 2,470,996
Farrukhabad 3,161 0.17% 3,137 0.17% 1,596,278 84.67% 487 0.03% 276,846 14.69% 3,160 0.17% 100 0.01% 2,035 0.11% 1,885,204
Fatehpur 172 0.01% 2,201 0.08% 2,274,674 86.40% 199 0.01% 350,700 13.32% 402 0.02% 47 0.00% 4,338 0.16% 2,632,733
Firozabad 3,395 0.14% 3,370 0.13% 2,140,745 85.69% 19,077 0.76% 314,812 12.60% 1,804 0.07% 61 0.00% 14,892 0.60% 2,498,156
Gautam Buddha Nagar 895 0.05% 7,366 0.45% 1,394,025 84.58% 4,518 0.27% 215,500 13.08% 9,261 0.56% 91 0.01% 16,459 1.00% 1,648,115
Ghaziabad 3,487 0.07% 19,026 0.41% 3,414,427 72.93% 16,412 0.35% 1,186,776 25.35% 23,001 0.49% 265 0.01% 18,251 0.39% 4,681,645
Ghazipur 3,145 0.09% 4,181 0.12% 3,233,790 89.32% 213 0.01% 368,153 10.17% 810 0.02% 184 0.01% 9,792 0.27% 3,620,268
Gonda 649 0.02% 4,735 0.14% 2,739,076 79.77% 338 0.01% 678,615 19.76% 1,893 0.06% 57 0.00% 8,556 0.25% 3,433,919
Gorakhpur 2,848 0.06% 9,662 0.22% 4,009,037 90.28% 460 0.01% 403,847 9.09% 2,123 0.05% 207 0.00% 12,711 0.29% 4,440,895
Hamirpur 74 0.01% 814 0.07% 1,010,014 91.46% 41 0.00% 91,269 8.26% 196 0.02% 273 0.02% 1,604 0.15% 1,104,285
Hardoi 6,671 0.16% 5,822 0.14% 3,508,131 85.71% 446 0.01% 556,219 13.59% 5,688 0.14% 98 0.00% 9,770 0.24% 4,092,845
Jalaun 2,875 0.17% 1,148 0.07% 1,509,708 89.33% 256 0.02% 171,581 10.15% 463 0.03% 145 0.01% 3,798 0.22% 1,689,974
Jaunpur 7,898 0.18% 4,947 0.11% 3,981,502 88.59% 349 0.01% 483,750 10.76% 1,286 0.03% 114 0.00% 14,358 0.32% 4,494,204
Jhansi 1,203 0.06% 7,050 0.35% 1,823,930 91.26% 7,328 0.37% 147,842 7.40% 4,951 0.25% 311 0.02% 5,988 0.30% 1,998,603
Jyotiba Phule Nagar 189 0.01% 5,952 0.32% 1,075,440 58.44% 517 0.03% 750,368 40.78% 5,295 0.29% 21 0.00% 2,439 0.13% 1,840,221
Kannauj 2,033 0.12% 1,263 0.08% 1,375,788 83.05% 606 0.04% 273,967 16.54% 504 0.03% 65 0.00% 2,390 0.14% 1,656,616
Kanpur Dehat 819 0.05% 1,300 0.07% 1,612,968 89.80% 155 0.01% 176,327 9.82% 478 0.03% 103 0.01% 4,034 0.22% 1,796,184
Kanpur Nagar 2,733 0.06% 15,751 0.34% 3,792,174 82.78% 5,710 0.12% 720,660 15.73% 29,676 0.65% 589 0.01% 13,975 0.31% 4,581,268
Kanshiram Nagar 3,907 0.27% 1,969 0.14% 1,211,427 84.32% 313 0.02% 213,822 14.88% 2,280 0.16% 72 0.01% 2,929 0.20% 1,436,719
Kaushambi 687 0.04% 2,225 0.14% 1,372,381 85.80% 545 0.03% 220,423 13.78% 522 0.03% 3 0.00% 2,810 0.18% 1,599,596
Kheri 18,454 0.46% 7,502 0.19% 3,078,262 76.55% 487 0.01% 807,600 20.08% 94,388 2.35% 226 0.01% 14,324 0.36% 4,021,243
Kushinagar 4,619 0.13% 5,006 0.14% 2,928,462 82.16% 383 0.01% 620,244 17.40% 767 0.02% 133 0.00% 4,930 0.14% 3,564,544
Lalitpur 69 0.01% 1,351 0.11% 1,163,804 95.27% 20,390 1.67% 33,724 2.76% 1,034 0.08% 41 0.00% 1,179 0.10% 1,221,592
Lucknow 3,877 0.08% 20,493 0.45% 3,537,787 77.08% 4,975 0.11% 985,070 21.46% 23,883 0.52% 504 0.01% 13,249 0.29% 4,589,838
Mahamaya Nagar 424 0.03% 1,350 0.09% 1,397,225 89.30% 1,289 0.08% 159,448 10.19% 524 0.03% 63 0.00% 4,385 0.28% 1,564,708
Mahoba 94 0.01% 965 0.11% 815,142 93.06% 234 0.03% 57,454 6.56% 389 0.04% 157 0.02% 1,523 0.17% 875,958
Mahrajganj 16,030 0.60% 3,527 0.13% 2,196,884 81.83% 243 0.01% 458,650 17.08% 1,381 0.05% 338 0.01% 7,650 0.28% 2,684,703
Mainpuri 8,814 0.47% 1,729 0.09% 1,746,649 93.48% 4,161 0.22% 100,723 5.39% 475 0.03% 38 0.00% 5,940 0.32% 1,868,529
Mathura 883 0.03% 3,179 0.12% 2,310,776 90.72% 2,056 0.08% 216,933 8.52% 2,872 0.11% 126 0.00% 10,359 0.41% 2,547,184
Mau 564 0.03% 2,109 0.10% 1,769,937 80.23% 155 0.01% 428,555 19.43% 340 0.02% 129 0.01% 4,179 0.19% 2,205,968
Meerut 1,855 0.05% 10,582 0.31% 2,183,255 63.40% 18,544 0.54% 1,185,643 34.43% 24,912 0.72% 236 0.01% 18,662 0.54% 3,443,689
Mirzapur 341 0.01% 2,373 0.10% 2,292,534 91.81% 701 0.03% 195,765 7.84% 1,133 0.05% 27 0.00% 4,096 0.16% 2,496,970
Moradabad 1,260 0.03% 13,157 0.28% 2,488,265 52.14% 2,426 0.05% 2,248,392 47.12% 7,555 0.16% 382 0.01% 10,569 0.22% 4,772,006
Muzaffarnagar 1,516 0.04% 6,495 0.16% 2,382,914 57.51% 16,345 0.39% 1,711,453 41.30% 18,601 0.45% 60 0.00% 6,128 0.15% 4,143,512
Pilibhit 360 0.02% 3,510 0.17% 1,449,007 71.34% 138 0.01% 489,686 24.11% 84,787 4.17% 45 0.00% 3,474 0.17% 2,031,007
Pratapgarh 7,795 0.24% 3,920 0.12% 2,731,351 85.11% 746 0.02% 452,394 14.10% 1,451 0.05% 43 0.00% 11,441 0.36% 3,209,141
Rae Bareli 722 0.02% 3,634 0.11% 2,975,998 87.39% 397 0.01% 413,243 12.13% 2,424 0.07% 602 0.02% 8,539 0.25% 3,405,559
Rampur 384 0.02% 9,201 0.39% 1,073,890 45.97% 1,307 0.06% 1,181,337 50.57% 65,316 2.80% 63 0.00% 4,321 0.18% 2,335,819
Saharanpur 1,937 0.06% 6,523 0.19% 1,966,892 56.74% 10,208 0.29% 1,454,052 41.95% 18,627 0.54% 135 0.00% 8,008 0.23% 3,466,382
Sant Kabir Nagar 4,393 0.26% 1,766 0.10% 1,300,586 75.83% 95 0.01% 404,410 23.58% 447 0.03% 35 0.00% 3,451 0.20% 1,715,183
Sant Ravidas Nagar (Bhadohi) 1,562 0.10% 1,365 0.09% 1,368,291 86.70% 161 0.01% 203,887 12.92% 199 0.01% 7 0.00% 2,741 0.17% 1,578,213
Shahjahanpur 2,312 0.08% 4,630 0.15% 2,412,595 80.24% 301 0.01% 527,581 17.55% 51,090 1.70% 84 0.00% 7,945 0.26% 3,006,538
Shrawasti 323 0.03% 1,427 0.13% 768,643 68.79% 68 0.01% 343,981 30.79% 407 0.04% 56 0.01% 2,456 0.22% 1,117,361
Siddharthnagar 11,964 0.47% 3,042 0.12% 1,789,704 69.93% 179 0.01% 748,073 29.23% 681 0.03% 356 0.01% 5,298 0.21% 2,559,297
Sitapur 2,663 0.06% 6,579 0.15% 3,555,450 79.29% 1,410 0.03% 893,725 19.93% 11,611 0.26% 79 0.00% 12,475 0.28% 4,483,992
Sonbhadra 1,747 0.09% 3,963 0.21% 1,738,769 93.35% 487 0.03% 103,567 5.56% 1,649 0.09% 1,907 0.10% 10,470 0.56% 1,862,559
Sultanpur 9,989 0.26% 4,453 0.12% 3,119,590 82.16% 426 0.01% 650,261 17.13% 1,629 0.04% 336 0.01% 10,433 0.27% 3,797,117
Unnao 920 0.03% 3,574 0.11% 2,732,016 87.89% 240 0.01% 363,453 11.69% 1,204 0.04% 31 0.00% 6,929 0.22% 3,108,367
Varanasi 1,146 0.03% 7,696 0.21% 3,107,681 84.52% 1,898 0.05% 546,987 14.88% 3,309 0.09% 298 0.01% 7,826 0.21% 3,676,841
STATE[ii] 206,285 0.10% 356,448 0.18% 159,312,654 79.73% 213,267 0.11% 38,483,967 19.26% 643,500 0.32% 13,598 0.01% 582,622 0.29% 199,812,341
  1. ^ Percentages are calculated out of total population for respective district, depicting the share of a religion's population in that district.
  2. ^ Percentages in 'STATE' are calculated out of total population of UP, depicting the share of each religion's population
Religion-wise percentage of UP (2011 Census)[4]
Religion Rural Urban Total
Buddhist 0.09% 0.02% 0.10%
Christian 0.09% 0.09% 0.18%
Hindu 65.03% 14.70% 79.73%
Jain 0.02% 0.09% 0.11%
Muslim 12.09% 7.17% 19.26%
Other religions and persuasions 0.00% 0.00% 0.01%
Religion not stated 0.19% 0.10% 0.29%
Sikh 0.22% 0.11% 0.32%
Total 77.73% 22.27% 100.00%

Literacy among women is quite low, going as low as 50.59% in Muslim community. On the contrary, the Jain community with quite high literacy rates, for both males and females as well. Also noteworthy is that Sikh and Hindu communities have very poor sex-ratios.

Caste

For accurate caste population data in India, the Government of India has not publicly released Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 caste population data for every single non-SC/ST castes, General castes, OBC/EBCs in India, hence no official figures are available for the same.[10][11][12][13]

As per estimations based on 2011 census, Dalits constitute 21.1% of Uttar Pradesh population.[14][15][16] Mallah community is divided in 27 sub-castes. Other Backward Classes (OBCs) constitute over 50% of Uttar Pradesh’s population.[17][18][19][20] Yadavs form the single largest group amongst the OBCs, constituting around 40 percent, and forming almost 15-19 percent of the state's population.[17][21] There are 200-odd OBCs in U.P. In Uttar Pradesh, Muslims are divided into 68 castes and sub-castes, 35 of them are OBCs. Forward castes constitute around 18-20% of Uttar Pradesh population,[22][23] in which Brahmins are about 9%[24][25] and Rajputs are 8%.[25]

Castes of Uttar Pradesh[26][27][28][29][30]
Caste Population (%)
OBC 50%[17]
Dalits (SCs) 20-21%
Tribals (STs) 0.1%
Forward caste 18-20%
Muslims 19-20%
Others 0.9%

Ethnic groups

Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in India with a population of over 199.5 million people on 1 March 2011. It is more populated than the world's 242 countries. If independent it would be the 6th largest country in the world as per Population.

At the 2011 census of India, 79.7% of Uttar Pradesh population is Hindu. Muslims make up 19.3% of the population, most of whom are Rohillas, a clan of ethnic Pathans. The remaining population consists of Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and Jains.

The population of Uttar Pradesh is divided into numerous castes and sub-castes. Historically, Hindu society is divided into four sub-divisions or varnas, the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. Muslims are also divided as the Shias and Sunnis. In actual practice, Hindu society in generally used to be divided into numerous lineage groups called jatis. Each jati is then sub-divided into clans, called gotras.

The peripheral regions of Uttar Pradesh, are home to a number of tribal communities such as Agaria, Baiga, Bhar, Bhoksa, Chero, Gond, Kol and Korwa. Five of these tribal communities have been recognised by the Government of India as disadvantaged scheduled tribes, viz. Tharus, Boksas, Bhotias, Jaunswaris and Rajis.[3]

Languages

Most people in Uttar Pradesh speak Hindi (including Urdu, which is often considered the same language), followed by Awadhi and Bhojpuri.[31]

The dialect map of Uttar Pradesh is complex, but, in general, in three of the five sub regions of UP, viz, the Doab, Rohilkhand, and Bundelkhand, both Western and Eastern Hindi, as well as a mixture of the two are spoken. For instance, in the upper and parts of lower Doab (until Etawah), various forms of western Hindi are spoken, including Khari boli and Brij Bhasha. In the rest of lower Doab, various mixes of western and Eastern Hindi (Brij Bhasha/ Bundelkhandi and Awadhi) are spoken). Likewise, in Western Bundelkhand, Bundeli (a language closely related with Brij Bhasha) is spoken, while in Eastern Bundelkhand the dialect is still called 'Bundeli' but is part of Eastern Hindi (actually a mixture of Western and Eastern Hindi). In Western Rohilkhand, Khari boli is spoken. in Central Rohilkhand a mix of Awadhi and Khari boli is spoken, while in Eastern Rohilkhand, Awadhi is the dialect.

As mentioned earlier, often these dialects merge into each other, for example in Shahjahanpur, in Rohilkhand, Khari boli merges into Awadhi.[32]

In central-eastern Uttar Pradesh, the Awadhi language is widely spoken. With about 38 million speakers, it is the second most spoken language in Uttar Pradesh according to independent sources.[33][34][35][36] However, in the official figures provided by the Indian census, the figure falls to an meagre four million due to conflation with neighbouring Hindi.

In extreme eastern Uttar Pradesh, the Bhojpuri language is spoken.[37] It is the third most widely spoken language of Uttar Pradesh after Hindi and Awadhi.[31] It belongs to the Magadhan group of Indo-Aryan languages.[38] This region is known as Bhojpur or Purvanchal.[39] The Bhojpuri variant of Kaithi is the indigenous script of Bhojpuri language.[40]

Uttar Pradesh: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Census.[41]
Mother tongue code Mother tongue People Percentage
001002 Assamese 10,288 0.01%
002007 Bengali 240,966 0.12%
005018 Gujarati 11,938 0.01%
006030 Awadhi 3,801,743 1.90%
006102 Bhojpuri 21,844,783 10.93%
006123 Brajbhasha 713,572 0.36%
006125 Bundeli/Bundel khandi 1,303,940 0.65%
006142 Chhattisgarhi 12,308 0.01%
006195 Garhwali 22,914 0.01%
006235 Haryanvi 16,166 0.01%
006240 Hindi 160,159,977 80.16%
006311 Khari Boli (Kauravi) 16,355 0.01%
006340 Kumauni 11,059 0.01%
006489 Rajasthani 13,382 0.01%
010008 Maithili 16,989 0.01%
011016 Malayalam 24,338 0.01%
013071 Marathi 24,115 0.01%
014011 Nepali 18,734 0.01%
015043 Odia 24,071 0.01%
016038 Punjabi 508,599 0.25%
019014 Sindhi 28,937 0.01%
020027 Tamil 14,426 0.01%
021046 Telugu 13,918 0.01%
022015 Urdu 10,793,391 5.40%
022016 Bhansari 20,993 0.01%
040001 English 13,085 0.01%
N.A. Others 131,354 0.07%
Total 199,812,341 100.00%

See also

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