Decadal population data for India at state and district levels from 1901 to 2011.
Format
A tibble with 7,901 rows and 12 columns:
- year
Census year (1901, 1911, ..., 2011)
- geography
Geographic level: "state" or "district"
- state_code
Numeric state code
- state_name
Name of the state
- state_name_harmonized
Harmonized state name for joining across datasets
- district_code
Numeric district code (0 for state-level)
- name
Name of the state or district
- population
Total population
- males
Male population
- females
Female population
- variation_absolute
Absolute change from previous census
- variation_percent
Percentage change from previous census
Source
Jolad, Shivakumar and Singh, Madhav (2026). "Indian Census Data Collection, 1901-2026: Digitised Subnational Population and Administrative Datasets." Harvard Dataverse. doi:10.7910/DVN/ON8CP8 .