India home to 79.8% Hindus, 14.2% Muslims: Census

New Delhi, Aug 25: Hindus constitute 79.8 per cent of India's population and Muslims 14.2 per cent but the proportion of Hindus to total population in 2011 slipped by 0.7 percentage points, census data released on Tuesday said.

Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India releases data on Population by Religious Communities of Census 2011.

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Population in 2011 is 121.09 crores: Hindu 79.8%,Muslim 14.2%,Christian 2.3%,Sikh 1.7%,Buddhist 0.7%,Jain 0.4% etc

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