Muslims as a share of population in India 1951-2011

Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 10, 2023
According to India's last census in 2011, about 14.2 percent of the total population identified as Muslims. This was an increase from about ten percent in 1951. Overall, India has been a religiously pluralistic and multiethnic democracy with people of several faiths.

Muslims as a share of the total population in India between 1951 and 2011

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June 2021

Region

India

Survey time period

1951 to 2011

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