Nagaland Population 2024

Nagaland is the north-eastern state in India, borders Manipur to the south, Assam to the west, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam to the north, Myanmar to the east. Nagaland population in 2023 is estimated to be 2.24 million (22.4 Lakhs), By Aug 2023, Nagaland population is projected to be 22.33 Lakhs as per Unique Identification Aadhar India, updated 31, May 2023. As per NFHS 2019-2021 report, Total Fertility Rate of Nagaland State is 2.2 children per women compared to 2.7 in 2016. Naga people form the majority of the population, as on 2011 census the total population of Naga tribals is 1.8 million, constitutes 90% of the total population.

Image Source: AO tribe of Nagaland population celebrating Moatsu

Census year	Persons	Absolute	Percentage	Males	Females
1901	101,550	-	-	51,473	50,077
1911	149,038	47,488	46.76	74,796	74,242
1921	158,801	9,763	6.55	79,738	79,063
1931	178,844	20,043	12.62	89,536	89,308
1941	189,641	10,797	6.04	93,831	95,810
1951	212,975	16,309	8.6	106,551	106,424
1961	369,200	28,975	14.07	191,027	178,173
1971	516,449	147,249	39.88	276,084	240,365
1981	774,930	258,481	50.05	415,910	359,020
1991	1,209,546	434,616	56.08	641,282	568,264
2001	1,990,036	780,490	64.53	1,047,141	942,895
2011	1,978,502	-11,534	-0.58	1,024,649	953,853

Source: A-2 Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901

Population Pyramid

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

Nagaland Population by Religion

Religion wise in Nagaland, Christian is the major religion with 88% of the population, followed by Hindu with 8.7%. Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain are less than 3% in total.

Religion	Persons	Percentage	Males	Females
Hindu	173,054	8.75	104,851	68,203
Muslim	48,963	2.47	28,527	20,436
Christian	1,739,651	87.93	881,927	857,724
Sikh	1,890	0.10	1,531	359
Buddhist	6,759	0.34	3,513	3,246
Jain	2,655	0.13	1,373	1,282
Others	3,214	0.16	1,620	1,594
Not Stated	2,316	0.12	1,307	1,009

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

Ethnic groups of Nagaland

Naga tribes of Nagaland are Angami, Ao, Chang, Chirr, Konyak, Lotha, Phom, Sema, Rengma, Pochury, Zeliang, Khiamniungan, Liangmai, Makury, Poumai, Rongmei, Sangtam, Sumi, Tikhir, Yimchunger, Zeme.
The tribes of Nagaland and their population as per census 2011 are:

Tribes	Population as per Census 2011
All Scheduled Tribes	1,710,973
Garo	2,346
Kachari	13,034
Kuki	18,768
Mikir	218
Naga	1,667,712
Naga(ST)	9,507
Angami(ST)	141,732
Ao(ST)	226,625
Chakhesang(ST)	154,874
Chang(ST)	64,226
Chirr(ST)	138
Khiemnungan(ST)	61,647
Konyak(ST)	237,568
Lotha(ST)	173,111
Makware(ST)	10
Phom(ST)	52,682
Rengma(ST)	62,951
Sangtam(ST)	74,994
Sema(ST)	236,313
Tikhir(ST)	7,537
Yimchaungre(ST)	66,972
Zeliang(ST)	74,877
Pochury(ST)	21,948
Generic Tribes etc.	8,895

Languages spoken in Nagaland

Nagas speak 60 different dialects.

Languages	Persons	Percentage	Rural	Urban
Konyak	244,135	12.3394	211,736	32,399
AO	231,084	11.6797	144,211	86,873
Lotha	177,488	8.9708	126,859	50,629
Angami	151,883	7.6767	98,152	53,731
Chokri	91,010	4.5999	77,489	13,521
Sangtam	75,841	3.8333	55,054	20,787
Bengali	74,753	3.7783	23,777	50,976
Yimchungre	74,156	3.7481	60,882	13,274
Chang	65,632	3.3173	47,984	17,648
Hindi	62,942	3.1813	17,280	45,662
Khiemnungan	61,906	3.1289	55,212	6,694
Rengma	61,537	3.1103	51,671	9,866
Zeliang	60,399	3.0528	46,692	13,707
Phom	53,674	2.7129	43,142	10,532
Nepali	43,481	2.1977	21,746	21,735
Khezha	34,218	1.7295	26,700	7,518
Pochury	21,446	1.0840	20,400	1,046
Kuki	18,392	0.9296	15,177	3,215
Chakhesang	17,919	0.9057	10,317	7,602
Assamese	17,201	0.8694	8,861	8,340
Mao	14,490	0.7324	8,363	6,127
Zemi	11,165	0.5643	10,123	1,042
Manipuri	9,511	0.4807	2,430	7,081
Sema	8,268	0.4179	2,544	5,724
Dimasa	4,871	0.2462	4,731	140
Odia	4,565	0.2307	2,278	2,287
Liangmei	3,923	0.1983	3,528	395
Malayalam	2,916	0.1474	929	1,987
Marathi	2,659	0.1344	1,072	1,587
Garo	2,351	0.1188	1,592	759
Punjabi	2,249	0.1137	1,199	1,050
Tangkhul	2,018	0.1020	619	1,399

Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Disability

Nagaland disable people stastistics as per table below.

Type of disability	Total Persons	Cultivators	Agriculture labor	HHI	Other workers
Total disabled population	15,384	10,416	969	375	3,624
In Seeing	2,264	1,414	155	58	637
In Hearing	5,529	3,897	278	134	1,220
In Speech	1,291	954	106	16	215
In Movement	1,533	851	95	65	522
Mental Retardation	477	318	46	8	105
Mental Illness	344	244	35	7	58
Any Other	2,708	1,793	159	59	697
Multiple disability	1,238	945	95	28	170

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

Nagaland Population projection

Nagaland population in 2023 is estimated to be 2.234 million, population in 2022 is estimated to be 2.21 million, population in 2021 is estimated to be 2.3 Million (23 Lakhs), According to UID, population in 2020 is estimated to be 2.2 Million (22 Lakhs).

District wise population in Nagaland

Below is the Nagaland district wise population as per Census 2011 and 2020 projection.

District	Population(2020 est.)	Population(2011)	Percentage
Mon	285,296	250,260	12.65
Mokokchung	221,869	194,622	9.84
Zunheboto	160,463	140,757	7.11
Wokha	189,631	166,343	8.41
Dimapur	431,845	378,811	19.15
Phek	186,297	163,418	8.26
Tuensang	224,119	196,596	9.94
Longleng	57,552	50,484	2.55
Kiphire	84,365	74,004	3.74
Kohima	305,506	267,988	13.54
Peren	108,550	95,219	4.81

Source: 2011 Census: Population Data on District/Sub-Dist Level