Madhya Pradesh Population - Census India 2011

Madhya Pradesh is one of state in India with population of 72,626,809. There are 50 districts, 342 Tehsils, 54,903 villages and 509 towns in Madhya Pradesh.

As per the Census India 2011, Madhya Pradesh has 15,093,256 households, population of 72,626,809 of which 37,612,306 are males and 35,014,503 are females. The population of children between age 0-6 is 10,809,395 which is 14.88% of total population.

The sex-ratio of Madhya Pradesh state is around 931 compared to 943 which is national average of India. The literacy rate of Madhya Pradesh state is 59% out of which 66.93% males are literate and 50.48% females are literate. The total area of Madhya Pradesh is 308,252 sq.km with population density of 236 per sq.km.

Out of total population, 72.37% of population lives in Urban area and 27.63% lives in Rural area. There are 15.62% Scheduled Caste (SC) and 21.09% Scheduled Tribe (ST) of total population in Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh Religion Population

Description	Population	Percentage
Total	72,626,809	100%
Hindu	66,007,121	90.89%
Muslim	4,774,695	6.57%
Other religions and persuasions	599,594	0.83%
Jain	567,028	0.78%
Buddhist	216,052	0.3%
Christian	213,282	0.29%
Sikh	151,412	0.21%
Religion not stated	97,625	0.13%

Madhya Pradesh Urban & Rural Population

Out of total population, 50% of population lives in Urban area and 60% lives in Rural area

Description	Urban	Rural
Area(sq.km)	7,746	300,506
Number of households	4,012,978	11,080,278
Total Population	20,069,405	52,557,404
Population (%)	52.13%	48.34%
Male Population	10,462,918	27,149,388
Female Population	9,606,487	25,408,016
Sex Ratio	918	936
Literacy (%)	72.59%	53.81%

List of Districts in Madhya Pradesh

Check out complete list of all districts in Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh Population Facts

Number of Households	15,093,256
Population	72,626,809
Male Population	37,612,306 (51.79%)
Female Population	35,014,503 (48.21%)
Children Population	10,809,395
Area	308,252 km2
Population density/km2	236
Sex-ratio	931
Literacy	59%
Male Literacy	66.93%
Female Literacy	50.48%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) %	21.09%
Scheduled Caste (SC) %	15.62%