Haryana Population 2025

Many believe the word "Hari" in Haryana is the name of Hindu god Vishnu and ayana is home in Sanskrit language, meaning "the Abode of God". Haryana State is located in the northern part of India. It is bordered by Punjab in the north and north-west, Rajasthan to the south and south-west, Uttar Pradesh to the east, and surrounds Indian Capital Delhi on three sides via north, west and south. Haryana population in 2025 is estimated to be 30.6 million (3.06 Crores), By Aug 2023, Haryana population is projected to be 3.02 Crores as per Unique Identification Aadhar India, updated 31, May 2023. As per NFHS 2019-2021 report, Total Fertility Rate of Haryana State is 1.9 children per women compared to 2.1 in 2016. Chandigarh is the state shared capital for Haryana and Punjab.

Haryanvi people gather for a mahila choupal in Bibipur, Haryana

Census year	Persons	Absolute	Percentage	Males	Females
1901	4,623,064	-	-	2,476,390	2,146,674
1911	4,174,677	-448,387	-9.7	2,274,909	1,899,768
1921	4,255,892	81,215	1.95	2,307,985	1,947,907
1931	4,559,917	304,025	7.14	2,473,228	2,086,689
1941	5,272,829	712,912	15.63	2,821,783	2,451,046
1951	5,673,597	400,768	7.6	3,031,612	2,641,985
1961	7,590,524	1,916,927	33.79	4,062,787	3,527,737
1971	10,036,431	2,445,907	32.22	5,377,044	4,659,387
1981	12,922,119	2,885,688	28.75	6,909,679	6,012,440
1991	16,463,648	3,541,529	27.41	8,827,474	7,636,174
2001	21,144,564	4,680,916	28.43	11,363,953	9,780,611
2011	25,351,462	4,206,898	19.9	13,494,734	11,856,728

Source: A-2 Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901

Population Pyramid

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

Haryana Population by Religion

Haryana is one of the oldest and ancient civilizations of India. Religion wise majority of the Haryana state population are Hindus. Hinduism constitutes 87%, followed by Muslim population with 7%, followed by Sikhs with 5%. Christians, Buddhists and Jains are less than 1%. Haryanvi men wear dhoti and kurta in white with a pagri, is a turban or a headgear for the men while women wear ghagras and lehengas as a traditional dress.

Religion	Persons	Percentage	Males	Females
Hindu	22,171,128	87.46	11,821,082	10,350,046
Muslim	1,781,342	7.03	940,027	841,315
Christian	50,353	0.20	26,165	24,188
Sikh	1,243,752	4.91	653,468	590,284
Buddhist	7,514	0.03	4,099	3,415
Jain	52,613	0.21	27,358	25,255
Others	2,548	0.01	1,111	1,437
Not Stated	42,212	0.17	21,424	20,788

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

Languages spoken in Haryana

Hindi which is Haryanvi dialect is the popular and widely spoken through out the state. 88% of the Haryana state population speak Haryanvi, followed by punjabi with 9.5%. Other languages like Urdu, Bengali, Lahnda, Maithili, Nepali etc., represent less than 1% of the total population and the migrated people to Haryana.

Languages	Persons	Percentage	Rural	Urban
Hindi	22,322,157	88.0508	14,446,655	7,875,502
Punjabi	2,400,883	9.4704	1,665,810	735,073
Urdu	374,353	1.4767	328,070	46,283
Bengali	70,948	0.2799	14,239	56,709
Lahnda	29,892	0.1179	20,478	9,414
Maithili	25,685	0.1013	7,567	18,118
Nepali	19,914	0.0786	6,217	13,697
Odia	14,835	0.0585	3,108	11,727
Malayalam	14,518	0.0573	1,261	13,257
Marathi	12,806	0.0505	2,129	10,677
Tamil	12,658	0.0499	1,315	11,343
Telugu	9,831	0.0388	1,309	8,522
Gujarati	7,519	0.0297	1,179	6,340
Kashmiri	6,225	0.0246	279	5,946
Assamese	4,204	0.0166	1,666	2,538
Kannada	3,172	0.0125	299	2,873
Dogri	3,129	0.0123	1,380	1,749

Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Disability

Type of disability	Total Persons	Cultivators	Agriculture labor	HHI	Other workers
Total disabled population	170,600	43,740	32,770	6,397	87,693
In Seeing	25,630	7,215	5,120	940	12,355
In Hearing	39,178	9,538	6,828	1,897	20,915
In Speech	6,727	2,170	1,123	225	3,209
In Movement	39,534	9,770	6,715	1,324	21,725
Mental Retardation	5,524	1,727	1,297	176	2,324
Mental Illness	2,799	950	625	85	1,139
Any Other	44,862	10,579	9,776	1,486	23,021
Multiple disability	6,346	1,791	1,286	264	3,005

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

Haryana Population projection

Haryana population in 2023 is estimated to be 30.3 million, population in 2022 is estimated to be 29.9 Million (2.99 Crores), population in 2021 is estimated to be 28.6 Million (2.86 Crores), According to UID, population in 2020 is 28 Million (2.8 Crores).

District wise population in Haryana

Haryana state is divided into 22 districts. Charkhi Dadri is the new district formed in December 2016 with a population of 502,276. Hisar is the largest district with 3,983 sq km, while Faridabad is the highest population of around 2 million and smallest district of the state with 792 sq km. Below is the Haryana district wise population as per Census 2011 and 2020 projection.

District	Population(2020 est.)	Population(2011)	Percentage
Panchkula	639,874	561,293	2.21
Ambala	1,286,319	1,128,350	4.45
Yamunanagar	1,384,194	1,214,205	4.79
Kurukshetra	1,099,707	964,655	3.81
Kaithal	1,224,707	1,074,304	4.24
Karnal	1,716,069	1,505,324	5.94
Panipat	1,374,198	1,205,437	4.75
Sonipat	1,653,001	1,450,001	5.72
Jind	1,520,933	1,334,152	5.26
Fatehabad	1,073,893	942,011	3.72
Sirsa	1,476,515	1,295,189	5.11
Hisar	1,988,081	1,743,931	6.88
Bhiwani	1,863,267	1,634,445	6.45
Rohtak	1,209,773	1,061,204	4.19
Jhajjar	1,092,582	958,405	3.78
Mahendragarh	1,051,180	922,088	3.64
Rewari	1,026,378	900,332	3.55
Gurgaon	1,726,452	1,514,432	5.97
Mewat	1,241,760	1,089,263	4.30
Faridabad	2,063,096	1,809,733	7.14
Palwal	1,188,687	1,042,708	4.11