-The Hindu No inkling till MHA put out a press release. The events leading to the release of Census data on religion on Tuesday were a departure from the norm and marked by secrecy, sources in the census office said. The 2011 data had been ready since late-2013, as the office worked on releasing the data far more quickly this time. First, the United Progressive Alliance, in the final year of a stormy...
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Population Growth slowing for all; on sex ratio, Muslims better than Hindus -Poonam Muttreja
-The Indian Express While decadal Growth rates are declining among all religious communities, the decline has been sharper among Muslims than among Hindus over the last three decades. The Census 2011 data on Population by Religious Communities, released by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, confirms the declining trend in population Growth rate in the country. While decadal Growth rates are declining among all religious communities, the decline has been...
More »Census 2011 religious data: Why it’s tough to use these numbers for identity politics -Seema Chishti
-The Indian Express The politics of what these figures could mean or what they could be 'spun' to mean is something to ponder. As far as demographers go, Census 2011 brings good news on the population stabilisation front. And now we know that even across religions, across all communities, there is a decline in population Growth rates. Alok Vajpeyi, of the Population Foundation of India who has studied the data in...
More »Muslim population Growth slows -Rukmini S & Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu Gap with Hindu Growth rate narrows. India’s Muslim population is growing slower than it had in the previous decades, and its Growth rate has slowed more sharply than that of the Hindu population, new Census data show. The decadal Muslim rate of Growth is the lowest it has ever been in India’s history, as it is for all religions. The Muslim population still grows at a faster rate than the Hindu...
More »Muslim Population Growth Rate Slackens -Kedar Nagarajan
-TheWire.in How most newspapers missed the real story behind the census data on religion New Delhi: The Muslim population is going up while the population of Hindus is going down. This seems to be the message being spread by the bulk of news reports on the ‘population by religious community’ data released by the Census of India on August 25. However, a deeper analysis of the data makes it clear that the population...
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