Gujarat Population 2025

Gujarat is the western state of India, bordered by Arabian sea on the west, Maharastra on the south, Madhya Pradesh on the east and Rajasthan on the north. It is ninth largest state by Population and sixth largest state by area with 196,024 sq km and people density is 308 per sq km. Gujarat population in 2025 is estimated to be 71.7 Million (7.17 Crores), By Aug 2023 Gujarat population is projected to be 7.15 crores as per Unique Identification Aadhar India, updated 31, May 2023. As per NFHS 2019-2021 report, Total Fertility Rate of Gujarat State is 1.9 children per women compared to 2 in 2016. Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat and its economy depends on agriculture, manufacturing, services and petroleum products, Other large cities are Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar and Surat. Lothal, Dholavira, and Gola Dhoro areas identified as ancient cities of Indus Valley, Dholavira being the largest ancient city. Gujarat was one of the main areas of Indus valley civilization of around 5000 BCE. The sex ratio of Gujarat people is 919 per 1000 males. As per Niti Aayog 2016 report, Total Fertility Rate is 2.2.

Image Source: Gujarati people gathering at Navratri

The people of Gujarat are called 'Gujaratis' and they speak Gujarati. The popular personalities like Mahatma Ghandi and Sardar Vallabhai Patel belongs to Gujarat, iconic figures of India's Independence movement.

The first registered census was recorded as 9 million in Gujarat region in 1901 by British India. The census conducted by Independent India in 1951 was recorded at 16 million, 7 million raise in population in the span of 50 years. From 1951 to 2001 the Gujarat population growth rate was more than 3 times, recorded as 50 million at the 2001 census. by the last census in 2011 the population growth rate was almost 20%, recorded to 60 million. The estimated population will be 64.7 million in 2021, with the lowest growth rate below 8% for the 10 year span from 2011 to 2021.

Census year	Persons	Absolute	Percentage	Males	Females
1901	9,094,748	-	-	4,654,875	4,439,873
1911	9,803,587	708,839	7.79	5,037,852	4,765,735
1921	10,174,989	371,402	3.79	5,233,462	4,941,527
1931	11,489,828	1,314,839	12.92	5,906,646	5,583,182
1941	13,701,551	2,211,723	19.25	7,060,352	6,641,199
1951	16,262,657	2,561,106	18.69	8,331,922	7,930,735
1961	20,633,350	4,370,693	26.88	10,633,902	9,999,448
1971	26,697,475	6,064,125	29.39	13,802,494	12,894,981
1981	34,085,799	7,388,324	27.67	17,552,640	16,533,159
1991	41,309,582	7,223,783	21.19	21,355,209	19,954,373
2001	50,671,017	9,361,435	22.66	26,385,577	24,285,440
2011	60,439,692	9,768,675	19.28	31,491,260	28,948,432

Source: A-2 Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901

Population Pyramid

Source: 2011 Census: Population In Five Year Age-Group

Gujarat Population by Religion

Religion wise, Hinduism is the major religion of the Gujarat state, According to 2011 census 88.57% belong to Hinduism, followed by Muslim with 9.6%. Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism and Zoarstrism are represented with below 2% of population. Jains are third-largest population in Gujarat with 0.96% followed by Christian with 0.52%. The Muslim population of Gujarat is 5.8 Million. The Zoarastrians are also known as parsi, migrated from Iran to Gujarat represent small percentage, instumental in playing vital role in Indian economy.

Religion	Persons	Percentage	Males	Females
Hindu	53,533,988	88.57	27,941,177	25,592,811
Muslim	5,846,761	9.67	3,007,221	2,839,540
Christian	316,178	0.52	159,759	156,419
Sikh	58,246	0.10	32,069	26,177
Buddhist	30,483	0.05	16,220	14,263
Jain	579,654	0.96	294,911	284,743
Others	16,480	0.03	8,362	8,118
Not Stated	57,902	0.10	31,541	26,361

Source: Details of Religion In Main Table C-1- 2011 (India & States/UTs)

Ethnic groups of Gujarat

Tribes	Population as per Census 2011
All Scheduled Tribes	8,917,174
Barda	748
Bavacha, Bamcha	2,889
Bharwad (in the Nesses of the forests of Alech, Barada and Gir)a	1,672
Bhil, Bhil Garasia, Dholi Bhil, Dungri Bhil, Dungri Garasia, Mewasi Bhil, Rawal Bhil, Tadvi Bhil, Bhagalia, Bhilala, Pawra, Vasava, Vasave	4,215,603
Charan (in the Nesses of the forests of Alech, Barada and Gir)a	2,890
Chaudhri (in Surat and Valsad districts)	302,958
Chodhara	7,579
Dhanka, Tadvi, Tetaria, Valvi	280,949
Dhodia, Dhodi	635,695
Dubla, Talavia, Halpati	643,120
Gamit, Gamta, Gavit, Mavchi, Padvi	378,445
Gond, Rajgond	2,965
Kathodi, Katkari, Dhor Kathodi, Dhor Katkari, Son Kathodi, Son Katkari	13,632
Kokna, Kokni, Kukna	361,587
Koli Dhor, Tokre Koli, Kolcha, Kolgha	67,119
Kunbi (in the Dangs district)	60,646
Naikda, Nayaka, Cholivala Nayaka, Kapadia Nayaka, Mota Nayaka, Nana Nayaka	459,908
Padhar	30,932
Pardhi, Advichincher, Phanse Pardhi (excluding Amreli, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Kutch, Rajkot and Surendranagar districts)	3,450
Patelia	114,414
Pomla	687
Rabari (in the Nesses of the forests of Alech, Barada and Gir)a	59,995
Rathawa	642,348
Siddi, Siddi- Badshan (in Amreli, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Rajkot and Surendranagar districts)	8,661
Varli	328,194
Vitola, Kotwalia, Barodia	24,249
Bhil, Bhilala, Barela, Patelia	54,434
Tadvi Bhil, Bawra, Vasave	572
Padvi	136
Generic Tribes etc.	210,697

Languages spoken in Gujarat

Gujarati is native to Gujarat state and is the main language with 86% of population around 52 million are native Gujarati speakers, followed by Hindi with 7% and Sindhi with 1.9%. Marathi and Bhili languages are 1.5% and 1.3%.

Languages	Persons	Percentage	Rural	Urban
Gujarati	51,958,730	85.9679	32,460,163	19,498,567
Hindi	4,264,868	7.0564	509,321	3,755,547
Sindhi	1,184,024	1.9590	592,230	591,794
Marathi	920,345	1.5227	62,543	857,802
Bhili	825,942	1.3666	798,919	27,023
Urdu	479,206	0.7929	18,695	460,511
Odia	183,549	0.3037	13,402	170,147
Khandeshi	153,622	0.2542	140,864	12,758
Bengali	79,648	0.1318	9,456	70,192
Telugu	73,568	0.1217	3,978	69,590
Malayalam	64,998	0.1075	3,965	61,033
Punjabi	63,288	0.1047	7,897	55,391
Tamil	40,072	0.0663	2,479	37,593
Nepali	25,142	0.0416	3,086	22,056
Kannada	18,033	0.0298	1,931	16,102
Maithili	10,864	0.0180	1,359	9,505
Konkani	5,092	0.0084	3,408	1,684
Assamese	3,935	0.0065	1,000	2,935
Lahnda	3,681	0.0061	19	3,662
Dogri	2,026	0.0034	111	1,915

Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Disability

Type of disability	Total Persons	Cultivators	Agriculture labor	HHI	Other workers
Total disabled population	380,064	71,037	92,115	7,015	209,897
In Seeing	76,652	13,565	16,946	1,431	44,710
In Hearing	71,710	13,145	16,386	1,344	40,835
In Speech	22,088	3,834	5,198	405	12,651
In Movement	99,777	19,924	23,799	1,827	54,227
Mental Retardation	9,793	2,059	3,579	134	4,021
Mental Illness	8,948	2,147	3,072	132	3,597
Any Other	79,230	13,863	19,565	1,481	44,321
Multiple disability	11,866	2,500	3,570	261	5,535

Source: 2011 Census: Distribution of Disabled(India & States/UTs)

Gujarat Population projection

According to UID, Gujarat population in 2022 is estimated to be 70.7 Million (7.07 Crores), in 2021 is estimated to be 64.8 Million (6.48 Crores), population in 2020 is estimated to be 64 Million (6.4 Crores), and population in 2023 is estimated to be 71.6 Million.

District wise population in Gujarat

Below is the Gujarat district wise population as per Census 2011 and 2020 projection. Gujarat state has 33 districts, Ahmedabad and Surat are the largest districts by population with 8 million and 6 million. Kutch district(Kachchh) located in north western part of Gujarat and is the largest district by area of 45,652 sq km.

District	Population(2020 est.)	Population(2011)	Percentage
Kachchh	2,385,303	2,092,371	3.46
Banas Kantha	3,557,377	3,120,506	5.16
Patan	1,531,857	1,343,734	2.22
Mahesana	2,319,973	2,035,064	3.37
Sabar Kantha	2,768,591	2,428,589	4.02
Gandhinagar	1,586,598	1,391,753	2.30
Ahmadabad	8,224,217	7,214,225	11.94
Surendranagar	2,002,146	1,756,268	2.91
Rajkot	4,337,196	3,804,558	6.29
Jamnagar	2,462,536	2,160,119	3.57
Porbandar	667,412	585,449	0.97
Junagadh	3,127,113	2,743,082	4.54
Amreli	1,726,177	1,514,190	2.51
Bhavnagar	3,283,616	2,880,365	4.77
Anand	2,385,729	2,092,745	3.46
Kheda	2,621,869	2,299,885	3.81
Panch Mahals	2,725,485	2,390,776	3.96
Dohad	2,424,878	2,127,086	3.52
Vadodara	4,748,814	4,165,626	6.89
Narmada	672,939	590,297	0.98
Bharuch	1,768,162	1,551,019	2.57
The Dangs	260,252	228,291	0.38
Navsari	1,515,826	1,329,672	2.20
Valsad	1,944,473	1,705,678	2.82
Surat	6,932,707	6,081,322	10.06
Tapi	920,005	807,022	1.34