GREAT INCREASE
POPULATION OF INDIA
GAIN OF 50,681,000 SINCE
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 1
A further enormous increase in the Indian population is recorded in the preliminary results of the census taken in March, 1941. The total was 388,800,000 —an increase of 50,681,000, or 15 per cent, since 1931. Between 1921 and 1931 the increase was 10.6 per cent.
Three of the principal cities have almost doubled their' population in 10 years. Calcutta, which has become the largest city, has risen from 1,141,000 to 2,109,000; Bombay from 1,161,000 to 1,488,000; Madras from 647,000 to 777,000. Other cities also show substantial increases, and the population of the north-west frontier province has increased by 25 per cent, Punjab and Bengal by 20 per cent. The percentage of literates shows a striking increase, being more than 12 per cent, compared with under 7 per cent in 1931. ,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1942, Page 3
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