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General Information - Population of India

Rural-Urban Migration in India


Rural Population which Migrated to Urban Areas

25% of the country's poor live in urban areas
31% of the urban population is poor


Traditional rural-urban migration exists in India as villagers seek to improve opportunities and lifestyles. In 1991, 39 million people migrated in rural-urban patterns of which 54% were female. Caste and tribe systems complicate these population movements.

Seasonal urban migration is also evident throughout India in cities like Surant where many migrants move into the city during periods of hardship and return to their native villages for events such as the harvest.

India's largest cities / urban areas

Rank City / Urban Area Population
1 Mumbai (Bombay) 16,368,000
2 Kolkata (Calcutta) 13,217,000
3 Delhi 12,791,000
4 Chennai 6,425,000
5 Bangalore 5,687,000
6 Hyderabad 5,534,000
7 Ahmadabad 4,519,000
8 Pune 3,756,000
9 Surat 2,811,000
10 Kanpur 2,690,000
11 Jaipur 2,324,000
12 Lucknow 2,267,000
13 Nagpur 2,123,000
14 Patna 1,707,000
15 Indore 1,639,044
16 Vadodara 1,492,000
17 Bhopal 1,455,000
18 Coimbatore 1,446,000
19 Ludhiana 1,395,000
20 Kochi 1,355,000
21 Visakhapatnam 1,329,000
22 Agra 1,321,000
23 Varanasi 1,212,000
24 Madurai 1,195,000
25 Meerut 1,167,000
26 Nashik 1,152,000
27 Jabalpur 1,117,000
28 Jamshedpur 1,102,000
29 Asansol 1,090,000
30 Dhanbad 1,064,000
31 Faridabad 1,055,000
32 Allahabad 1,050,000
33 Amritsar 1,011,000
34 Vijayawada 1,011,000
35 Rajkot 1,002,000
Source: India's national census of 2001





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