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Demography and development: Preliminary interpretations of the 2011 Census [1]

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The pace at which India’s population is growing is slowing, but not as rapidly as expected; India will become the largest country in the world sooner than earlier forecast. Literacy rates have increased sharply between 2001 and 2011; some of the low performing rates have shown strong improvements, the others have not.

Publication Date: 
16/04/2011
K Navaneetham [2], A Dharmalingam [3]
Economic and Political Weekly [4]
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People [5], Population [6], Population Trends [7], India [8], Education [9], Women [10], Census 2011 [11]
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