About how much was the growth of population of India in absolute numbers from 2001 to 2011?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → 18.15 crores
Between 2001 and 2011 India’s population grew by about 18.15 crores, reaching 121.02 crore in 2011.
Note: The box in the current NCERT book (2025-26) prints the 2001 population as ‘102.70 crore’, and 121.02 − 102.70 would give 18.32 crore, not the 18.15 crores the same sentence states. The book’s own table of decadal growth rates gives the 2001 population as 1,028,610,328 (about 102.86 crore) and the growth from 2001 to 2011 as 181,583,094, which is about 18.16 crore. So ‘102.70’ is a printing slip in the book; the growth figure, and the answer, are not affected.
NCERT: Fundamentals of Human Geography — Chapter 2: The World Population: Distribution, Density and Growth, box ‘Some Basic Concepts of Population Geography’ (2025-26)
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