Over 909 million people in India lived in rural areas in 2023, a decrease from 2022. Urban India, although far behind with over 508 million people, had a higher year-on-year growth rate during the measured period.

Actual value and historical data chart for India Rural Population Percent Of Total Population

Rural India was mainly made up of men and women between 15 and 59 years old in 2020. Compared to urban centers, children up to ages ** had a higher share in rural areas during the same time period.

In 1951, India’s rural population was approximately 298.6 million, while the urban population was just 62.4 million. In 2011, the rural and urban populations of India rose to 833.7 million and 377.1 million, respectively. The rural population steadily increased by approximately 179% over 60 years. However, the urban population experienced a dramatic rise. It increased by approximately 504% during the same timeframe.

Actual value and historical data chart for India Urban Population Percent Of Total

The migration rate within India between 2020 and 2021 was almost ** percent. This means, between July 2020 and June 2021, about **** percent of the population in the rural areas of the country were migrants, while this was about ** percent for the population in urban areas. During the same time period, there was a much higher share of migrants among females than males in the country.

This data contains all the essential data in the form of % with respect to rural and urban Indian states . This dataset is highly accurate as this is taken from the Indian govt. it is updated till 2021 for all states and union territories. source of data is data.gov.in titled - ******All India and State/UT-wise Factsheets of National Family Health Survey******

it is advised to you pls search the data keywords you need by using (Ctrl+f) , as it will help to avoid time wastage. States/UTs

Different columns it contains are Area

Number of Households surveyed Number of Women age 15-49 years interviewed Number of Men age 15-54 years interviewed

Female population age 6 years and above who ever attended school (%)

Population below age 15 years (%)

Sex ratio of the total population (females per 1,000 males)

Sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years (females per 1,000 males)

Children under age 5 years whose birth was registered with the civil authority (%)

Deaths in the last 3 years registered with the civil authority (%)

Population living in households with electricity (%)

Population living in households with an improved drinking-water source1 (%)

Population living in households that use an improved sanitation facility2 (%)

Households using clean fuel for cooking3 (%) Households using iodized salt (%)

Households with any usual member covered under a health insurance/financing scheme (%)

Children age 5 years who attended pre-primary school during the school year 2019-20 (%)

Women (age 15-49) who are literate4 (%)

Men (age 15-49) who are literate4 (%)

Women (age 15-49) with 10 or more years of schooling (%)

Men (age 15-49) with 10 or more years of schooling (%)

Women (age 15-49) who have ever used the internet (%)

Men (age 15-49) who have ever used the internet (%)

Women age 20-24 years married before age 18 years (%)

Men age 25-29 years married before age 21 years (%)

Total Fertility Rate (number of children per woman) Women age 15-19 years who were already mothers or pregnant at the time of the survey (%)

Adolescent fertility rate for women age 15-19 years5 Neonatal mortality rate (per 1000 live births)

Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) Under-five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)

Current Use of Family Planning Methods (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years) - Any method6 (%)

Current Use of Family Planning Methods (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years) - Any modern method6 (%)

Current Use of Family Planning Methods (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years) - Female sterilization (%)

Current Use of Family Planning Methods (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years) - Male sterilization (%)

Current Use of Family Planning Methods (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years) - IUD/PPIUD (%)

Current Use of Family Planning Methods (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years) - Pill (%)  

Current Use of Family Planning Methods (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years) - Condom (%)

Current Use of Family Planning Methods (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years) - Injectables (%)

Total Unmet need for Family Planning (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years)7 (%)

Unmet need for spacing (Currently Married Women Age 15-49 years)7 (%)

Health worker ever talked to female non-users about family planning (%)

Current users ever told about side effects of current method of family planning8 (%)

Mothers who had an antenatal check-up in the first trimester (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey) (%)

Mothers who had at least 4 antenatal care visits (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey) (%)

Mothers whose last birth was protected against neonatal tetanus (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey)9 (%)

Mothers who consumed iron folic acid for 100 days or more when they were pregnant (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey) (%)

Mothers who consumed iron folic acid for 180 days or more when they were pregnant (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey} (%)

Registered pregnancies for which the mother received a Mother and Child Protection (MCP) card (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey) (%)

Mothers who received postnatal care from a doctor/nurse/LHV/ANM/midwife/other health personnel within 2 days of delivery (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey) (%)

Average out-of-pocket expenditure per delivery in a public health facility (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey) (Rs.)

Children born at home who were taken to a health facility for a check-up within 24 hours of birth (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey} (%)

Children who received postnatal care from a doctor/nurse/LHV/ANM/midwife/ other health personnel within 2 days of delivery (for last birth in the 5 years before the survey) (%)

Institutional births (in the 5...

This scatter chart displays urban population (people) against rural population (people) in India. The data is filtered where the date is 2023. The data is about countries per year.

The dataset contains Decade and State wise Urban, Rural, Total Population and Decadal Growth Rate

Note: 1. The Population figures exclude population of areas under unlawful occupation of Pakistan and China, where Census could not be taken. 2. In Arunachal Pradesh, the census was conducted for the first time in 1961. 3. Population data of Assam include Union Territory of Mizoram, which was carved out of Assam after the 1971. 4. The 1981 Census could not be held in Assam. Total Population for 1981 has been worked out by Interpolation. 5. The 1991 Census could not be held in Jammu & Kashmir. Total Population for 1991 has been worked out by Interpolation. 6. India and Manipur figures include estimated Population for those of the three sub-divisions viz., Mao Maram,Paomata and Purul of Senapati district of Manipur as census result of 2001 in these three sub-divisions were cancelled due to technical and administrative reasons

In financial year 2025, the total number of internet connections in India reached *** million. The connectivity has more than tripled since 2015, in comparison to ****** million connections. Although around ***percent of India's population lives in rural areas, the number of connections remains higher in urban areas compared to rural areas. In 2025, there were ***** million internet connections in urban areas.

In 2024, approximately ***** percent of the population in Papua New Guinea were living in rural areas. In comparison, approximately **** percent of the population in Japan were living in rural areas that year. Urbanization and development Despite the desirable outcomes that urbanization entails, these rapid demographic shifts have also brought about unintended changes. For instance, in countries like India, rapid urbanization has led to unsustainable and crowded cities, with **** of the urban population in India estimated to live in slums. In China, population shifts from rural to urban areas have aggravated regional economic disparities. For example, the migration of workers into coastal cities has made possible the creation of urban clusters of immense economic magnitude, with the Yangtze River Delta city cluster accounting for about a ******of the country’s gross domestic product. Megacities and their future Home to roughly 60 percent of the world’s population, the Asia-Pacific region also shelters most of the globe’s largest urban agglomerations. Megacities, a term used for cities or urban areas with a population of over ten million people, are characterized by high cultural diversity and advanced infrastructure. As a result, they create better economic opportunities, and they are often hubs of innovation. For instance, many megacities in the Asia-Pacific region offer high local purchasing power to their residents. Despite challenges like pollution, income inequality, or the rising cost of living, megacities in the Asia-Pacific region have relatively high population growth rates and are expected to expand.

Dataset

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Contents

In 2023, approximately a third of the total population in India lived in cities. The trend shows an increase of urbanization by more than 4 percent in the last decade, meaning people have moved away from rural areas to find work and make a living in the cities. Leaving the fieldOver the last decade, urbanization in India has increased by almost 4 percent, as more and more people leave the agricultural sector to find work in services. Agriculture plays a significant role in the Indian economy and it employs almost half of India’s workforce today, however, its contribution to India’s GDP has been decreasing while the services sector gained in importance. No rural exodus in sightWhile urbanization is increasing as more jobs in telecommunications and IT are created and the private sector gains in importance, India is not facing a shortage of agricultural workers or a mass exodus to the cities yet. India is a very densely populated country with vast areas of arable land – over 155 million hectares of land was cultivated land in India as of 2015, for example, and textiles, especially cotton, are still one of the major exports. So while a shift of the workforce focus is obviously taking place, India is not struggling to fulfill trade demands yet.

Context

This dataset contains state-wise Fertility Rate of India.

Content

It has total 4 columns:- State Total Urban Rural Population 'States': These contain names of all the States and Union Territories of India. 'Total': Fertility rate of each state. It is an estimate of the average number of children that a woman would have over her childbearing years (i.e. age 15-49), based on current birth trends. It is calculated using below formulae. 'Urban': Total Fertility rate of each state for urban dwellers. 'Rural': Total Fertility rate of each state for rural dwellers. 'Population': Total number of people in that state.

Acknowledgements

I am thankful to Indian government for maintaining these valuable data which can be used to understand demography of India in more clear way.

Inspiration

I am truly inspired by everyone on the Kaggle, with the level of their dedication and hard work.

India Census: Population: Urban: Female data was reported at 181,616,925.000 Person in 2011. This records an increase from the previous number of 135,565,591.000 Person for 2001. India Census: Population: Urban: Female data is updated yearly, averaging 158,591,258.000 Person from Mar 2001 (Median) to 2011, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 181,616,925.000 Person in 2011 and a record low of 135,565,591.000 Person in 2001. India Census: Population: Urban: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Census of India. The data is categorized under India Premium Database’s Demographic – Table IN.GAB001: Census: Population.

Data from www.census.gov.in was downloaded and processed available in this link,

Used the table code :PC11_B07 which contains data regarding working population classified by industrial category, educational level and gender. From these 35 excel tables, data was extracted and transformed into required format using Excel and Power Query detailed here. Transformed it into two datasets of Urban and Rural.

There are two .csv files used here. One is Rural education data district wise and second one is Urban education data district wise.

Urbanisation is a form of social transformation from traditional rural societies to modern, industrial and urban communities. It is long term continuous process. It is progressive concentration of population in urban unit. Kingsley Davies has explained urbanisation as process of switch from spread out pattern of human settlements to one of concentration in urban centers. Migration is the key process underlying growth of urbanization.

Challenges in urban development--->;

Institutional challenges

Urban Governance 74th amendment act has been implemented half-heartedly by the states, which has not fully empowered the Urban local bodies (ULBs). ULBs comprise of municipal corporations, municipalities and nagar panchayats, which are to be supported by state governments to manage the urban development. For this , ULBs need clear delegation of functions, financial resources and autonomy. At present urban governance needs improvement for urban development, which can be done by enhancing technology, administrative and managerial capacity of ULBs.

Planning Planning is mainly centralized and till now the state planning boards and commissions have not come out with any specific planning strategies an depend on Planning commission for it. This is expected to change in present government, as planning commission has been abolished and now focus is on empowering the states and strengthening the federal structure.

In fact for big cities the plans have become outdated and do not reflect the concern of urban local dwellers, this needs to be take care by Metropolitan planning committee as per provisions of 74th amendment act. Now the planning needs to be decentralized and participatory to accommodate the needs of the urban dwellers.

Also there is lack of human resource for undertaking planning on full scale. State planning departments and national planning institutions lack qualified planning professional. Need is to expand the scope of planners from physical to integrated planning- Land use, infrastructure, environmental sustainability, social inclusion, risk reduction, economic productivity and financial diversity.

Finances Major challenge is of revenue generation with the ULBs. This problem can be analyzed form two perspectives. First, the states have not given enough autonomy to ULBs to generate revenues and Second in some case the ULBs have failed to utilize even those tax and fee powers that they have been vested with.

There are two sources of municipal revenue i.e. municipal own revenue and assigned revenue. Municipal own revenue are generated by municipal own revenue through taxes and fee levied by them. Assigned revenues are those which are assigned to local governments by higher tier of government.

There is growing trend of declining ratio of own revenue. There is poor collection property taxes. Use of geographical information system to map all the properties in a city can have a huge impact on the assessment rate of properties that are not in tax net.

There is need to broaden the user charge fee for water supply, sewerage and garbage disposal. Since these are the goods which have a private characteristics and no public spill over, so charging user fee will be feasible and will improve the revenue of ULBs , along with periodic revision. Once the own revenue generating capacity of the cities will improve, they can easily get loans from the banks. At present due to lack of revenue generation capabilities, banks don’t give loan to ULBs for further development. For financing urban projects, Municipal bonds are also famous, which work on the concept of pooled financing.

Regulator

There is exponential increase in the real estate, encroaching the agricultural lands. Also the rates are very high, which are not affordable and other irregularities are also in practice. For this, we need regulator, which can make level playing field and will be instrumental for affordable housing and checking corrupt practices in Real estate sector.

Infrastructural challenges

Housing Housing provision for the growing urban population will be the biggest challenge before the government. The growing cost of houses comparison to the income of the urban middle class, has made it impossible for majority of lower income groups and are residing in congested accommodation and many of those are devoid of proper ventilation, lighting, water supply, sewage system, etc. For instance in Delhi, the current estimate is of a shortage of 5,00,000 dwelling units the coming decades. The United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS) introduced the concept of “Housing Poverty” which includes “Individuals and households who lack safe, secure and healthy shelter, with basic infrastructure such as piped water and adequate provision for sanitation, drainage and the removal of hou...

The Dataset consist of distribution of population across different states. The dataset also gives information regarding the area of the state, urban-rural distribution of population, population density, sex ratio and literacy rates in different states with reference from 2011 census. The dataset helps in analysis of population distribution of India.

Note: *Disputed area of 13 km^2 between Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh is included in neither. *The shortfall of 7 km^2 area of Madhya Pradesh and 3 km^2 area of Chhattisgarh is yet to be resolved by the Survey of India. *Area figures do not include the areas claimed by India that are in Pakistani or Chinese administrative control. This includes 78,114 km^2 of area in Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan under Pakistani administration, 5,180 km^2 of area in Shaksgam Valley ceded to China by Pakistan and 37,555 km^2 of area in Aksai Chin under Chinese administration totaling to 120,849 km^2.

Abstract

The Employment and Unemployment surveys of National sample Survey (NSS) are primary sources of data on various indicators of labour force at National and State levels. These are used for planning, policy formulation, decision support and as input for further statistical exercises by various Government organizations, academicians, researchers and scholars. NSS surveys on employment and un-employment with large sample size of households have been conducted quinquennially from 27th. round(October'1972 - September'1973) onwards. Cotinuing in this series the fourth such all-india survey on the situation of employment and unemployment in India was carried out during the period july 1987 - june 1988 .

The working Group set up for planning of the entire scheme of the survey, among other things, examined also in detail some of the key results generated from the 38th round data and recommended some stream-lining of the 38th round schedule for the use in the 43rd round. Further, it felt no need for changing the engaging the easting conceptual frame work. However, some additional items were recommended to be included in the schedule to obtain the necessary and relevant information for generating results to see the effects on participation rates in view of the ILO suggestions.5.0.1. The NSSO Governing Council approved the recommendations of the working Group and also the schedule of enquiry in its 44th meeting held on 16 January, 1987. In this survey, a nation-wide enquiry was conducted to provide estimates on various characteristics pertaining to employment and unemployment in India and some characteristics associated with them at the national and state levels. Information on various facets of employment and unemployment in India was collected through a schedule of enquiry (schedule 10).

Geographic coverage

The survey covered the whole of Indian Union excepting i) Ladakh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir ii) Rural areas of Nagaland

Analysis unit

Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

It may be mentioned here that in order to net more households of the upper income bracket in the Sample , significant changes have been made in the sample design in this round (compares to the design of the 38th round).

SAMPLE DESIGN AND SAMPLE SIZE The survey had a two-stage stratified design. The first stage units (f.s.u.'s) are villages in the rural sector and urban blocks in the urban sector. The second stage units are households in both the sectors. Sampling frame for f.s.u.'s : The lists of 1981 census villages constituted the sampling frame for rural sector in most districts. But the 1981 census frame could not be used for a few districts because, either the 1981 census was not held there or the list of 1981 census villages could not be obtained or the lists obtained from the census authorities were found to be grossly incomplete. In such cases 1971 census frame were used. In the urban sector , the Urban Frame Survey (U.F.S.) blocks constituted the sampling frame. STRATIFICATION : States were first divided into agro-economic regions which are groups of contiguous districts , similar with respect to population density and crop pattern. In Gujarat, however , some districts have been split for the purpose of region formation In consideration of the location of dry areas and the distribution of the tribal population in the state. The composition of the regions is given in the Appendix. RURAL SECTOR: In the rural sector, within each region, each district with 1981Census rural population less 1.8 million formed a single stratum. Districts with larger population were divided into two or more strata, depending on population, by grouping contiguous tehsils similar, as for as possible, in respect of rural population Density and crop pattern. (In Gujarat, however , in the case of districts extending over more than one region, even if the rural population was less than 1.8 million, the portion of a district falling in each region constituted a separate stratum. Further ,in Assam the old "basic strata" formed on the basis of 1971 census rural population exactly in the above manner, but with cut-off population as 1.5 million have been retained as the strata for rural sampling.) URBAN SECTOR : In the urban sector , strata were formed , again within NSS region , on the basis of the population size class of towns . Each city with population 10 lakhs or more is self-representative , as in the earlier rounds . For the purpose of stratification, in towns with '81 census population 4 lakhs or more , the blocks have been divided into two categories , viz . : One consisting of blocks in areas inhabited by the relatively affluent section of the population and the other consisting of the remaining blocks. The strata within each region were constituted as follows :

Table (1.2) : Composition of urban strata

Stratum population class of town

number

(1) (2)

1 all towns with population less than 50,000 2 -do- 50,000 - 199,999 3 -do- 200,000 - 399,999 4 -do- 400,000 - 999,999 ( affluent area) 5 (other area) 6 a single city with population 1 million and above (affluent area) 7 " (other area) 8 another city with population 1 million and above

9 " (other area)

Note : There is no region with more than one city with population 1 million and above. The stratum number have been retained as above even if in some regions some of the strata are empty. Allocation for first stage units : The total all-India sample size was allocated to the states /U.T.'s proportionate to the strength of central field staff. This was allocated to the rural and urban sectors considering the relative size of the rural and urban population. Now the rural samples were allocated to the rural strata in proportion to rural population. The urban samples were allocated to the urban strata in proportion to urban population with double weight age given to those strata of towns with population 4 lakhs or more which lie in area inhabited by the relatively affluent section. All allocations have been adjusted such that the sample size for stratum was at least a multiple of 4 (preferably multiple of 8) and the total sample size of a region is a multiple of 8 for the rural and urban sectors separately.
Selection of f.s.u.'s : The sample villages have been selected circular systematically with probability proportional to population in the form of two independent interpenetrating sub-samples (IPNS) . The sample blocks have been selected circular systematically with equal probability , also in the form of two IPNS' s. As regards the rural areas of Arunachal Pradesh, the procedure of 'cluster sampling' was:- The field staff will be supplied with a list of the nucleus villages of each cluster and they selected the remaining villages of the cluster according to the procedure described in Section Two. The nucleus villages were selected circular systematically with equal probability, in the form of two IPNS 's. Hamlet-group and sub-blocks : Large villages and blocks were sub- divided into a suitable number of hamlet-groups and sub-blocks respectively having equal population convent and one them was selected at random for surveys. Hamlet-group and sub-blocks : Large villages and blocks were sub- divided into a suitable number of hamlet-groups and sub-blocks respectively having equal population convent and one them was selected at random for surveys. Selection of households : rural : In order to have adequate number of sample households from the affluent section of the society, some new procedures were introduced for selection of sample households, both in the rural and urban sectors. In the rural sector , while listing households, the investigator identified the households in village/ selected hamlet- group which may be considered to be relatively more affluent than the rest. This was done largely on the basis of his own judgment but while exercising his judgment considered factors generally associated with rich people in the localitysuch as : living in large pucca house in well-maintained state, ownership/possession of cultivated/irrigated land in excess of certain norms. ( e.g.20 acres of cultivated land or 10 acres of irrigated land), ownership of motor vehicles and costly consumer durables like T.V. , VCR, VCP AND refrigerator, ownership of large business establishment , etc. Now these "rich" households will form sub-stratum 1. (If the total number of households listed is 80 or more , 10 relatively most affluent households will form sub-stratum 1. If it is below 80, 8 such households will form sub-stratum 1. The remaining households will 'constitute sub-stratum 2. At the time of listing, information relating to each household' s major sources of income will be collected, on the basis of which its means of livelihood will be identified as one of the following : "self-employed in non-agriculture " "rural labour" and "others" (see section Two for definition of these terms) . Also the area of land possessed as on date of survey will be ascertained from all households while listing. Now the households of sub-stratum 2 will be arranged in the order : (1)self-employed in non-agriculture, (2) rural labour, other households, with land possessed (acres) : (3) less than 1.00 (4) 1.00-2.49,(5)2.50-4.99, (6)

The statistic illustrates the share of elderly people living in India in 2011. over nine percent of the female elderly population were living in rural areas in India. Conversely, the share of male population living in the rural areas was lower at slightly over eight percent