Demographics of India - Salient Features

Salient Features

India occupies 2.4% of the world's land area and supports over 17.5% of the world's population. Per the 2001 census, 72.2% of the population lives in about 638,000 villages and the remaining 27.8% lives in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations.

India's population exceeds that of the entire continent of Africa by 200 million people.

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