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Census 2025
November 5 , 2024
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- The much-delayed decadal census exercise and the work to update the National Population Register (NPR) are likely to begin early 2025.
- The data will be declared by 2026.
- The country's population count has been conducted every 10 years since 1951.
- But the census work in 2021 could not be carried out due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- With this, the census cycle is likely to be changed.
- So, it will be 2025-2035 and then 2035-2045 and so on in future.
- 31 questions are to be asked to the citizens during the census exercise.
- The census of India is recorded every decade, with the first one being held in 1872.
- The first census post-Independence was recorded in 1951 and the last one in 2011.
- According to the 2011 data, India's total population was 121 crore, sex ratio was 940 females per 1,000 males, literacy rate was 74.04%.
- The population growth was 17.64% from 2001 to 2011.
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