Names |
| ISO3-Code |
IND |
| Continent |
Asia |
| Country Name |
India |
Administrative Classifications |
| Level Used |
3.0 |
| Leve1 Type |
State |
| Level2 Type |
District |
| Level3 Type |
Tahsil |
| Number of Units |
5,209 |
| Population Per Unit ('000) (2000, estimate) |
194 |
National Population Estimates |
| Last Year of Reference |
2001 |
| NSO-Based Estimated Population, 1990 ('000) |
836,168 |
| NSO-Based Estimated Population, 1995 ('000) |
919,250 |
| NSO-Based Estimated Population, 2000 ('000) |
1,011,238 |
| UN Population, 1990 ('000) |
844,886 |
| UN Population, 1995 ('000) |
927,102 |
| UN Population, 2000 ('000) |
1,008,937 |
National Spatial Estimates |
| Area (km2) |
3,209,716 |
| Average Input Resolution (km) |
25 |
Settlement Points |
| Number of Settlement Points |
3,570 |
| Largest Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) |
11,698,814 |
| Smallest Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) |
1,041 |
| Mean Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) |
69,475 |
Urban Areal Extents |
| Number of Urban Extents |
3,200 |
| Largest Urban Extent (km2) |
3,757 |
| Smallest Urban Extent (km2) |
1 |
| Mean Urban Extent (km2) |
70 |
| Total for All Urban Extent (km2) |
223,398 |
| Largest Urban Extent (population, 2000) |
17,332,634 |
| Smallest Urban Extent (population, 2000) |
1,258 |
| Mean Urban Extent (population, 2000) |
89,766 |
| Total for All Urban Extent (population, 2000) |
287,249,961 |
| % Total Land Area in Urban Extents (km2) |
7% |
| % Total Population in Urban Extents (2000, estimate) |
28% |
| % Total Population that is Urban (2001, UN World Urbanization Prospects) |
28% |
Urban Areal Extents, by Source |
| Nighttime Lights Data |
3,038 |
| Regression-estimated Extents |
951 |
| Digital Chart of the World |
64 |
| Other |
0 |
Notes |
- Administrative Population Source Data:
- 1991 and 2001 population data were purchased from ML Infomap Private Limited, http://www.mlinfomap.com/.
Original 2001 data source cited as: Provisional population tables; Census of India 2001-district-wise for each State and
Rural-Urban Distribution of population. 2001 state population totals for growth rates from: http://www.censusindia.net/cendata1/index2.html?pa=1=%20Rate91_01
Original 1991 data source cited as: Census of India, state, district and town level population statistics for 1991 provided by the office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. 19911 state population totals for growth rates from: www.censusindia.net/cendat/datatable2.html
- Administrative Boundary Source Data:
- Tahsil Digital Map of India purchased from ML Infomap Private Limited: http://www.mlinfomap.com/.
Original 2001 data source cited as: National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization (NATMO) and the Survey of India (SOI), and the Census of India.
Original 1991 data source cited as: National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization (NATMO) and the Survey of India (SOI).
- Settlement Point Population Source Data:
- India Census 1991, www.indiastat.com/default.asp; India Census 2001, Provisional Results, www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=7;World Gazetteer, www.gazetteer.de
- Settlement Point Coordinate Source Data:
- ASCities, Census, City Population, DCW, Getty, GIS, Map, NIMA, Times Atlas of the World, 1999, UNSD, World Gazetteer
- Urban Criteria for Settlements (UN):
- Towns (places with municipal cor-poration, municipal area committee, town commit-tee, notified area committee or cantonment board); and all places having 5,000 inhabitants or more, a density of not fewer than 1,000 persons per square mile or 390 per square kilometre, pronounced urban characteristics and at least three fourths of the adult male population employed in pursuits other than agriculture.
- Administrative Population Edits and Notes:
- Population growth rates were calculated between 1991 and 2001 at the state (administrative 1) level and applied to the 2001 tahsils (administrative 3). Exception to this rule are Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Kashmir, where the base year was 1991. Three new states were created between the 1991 and 2001 censuses (Jharkland, Chhattisgargh, and Uttar Pradesh). These were aggregated with their parent states before a growth rate could be applied to extrapolate the tahsil level population data to target years (e.g Jharkland was recombined with Bihar and the same state level growth rate was applied to all sub units in both Jharkland and Bihar). In West Bengal, several highly populated areas were missing from the data (only on the population, not the spatial side). These were manually added back in based on Web estimates. For more information on these calculations, please contact us at: ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
- Administrative Spatial Edits and Notes:
- New internal ADM boundary data taken from updated Shapefiles purchased from InfoMap, March 03. India boundary edges matched to bordering countries, state-level files received from InfoMap were boundary matched to other Indian states.
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