Rajasthan Population 2025

Rajasthan is northern state of India, bordered by Pakistan in the west, Punjab to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to the north east, Gujarat to the south west and Madhya Pradesh state to the south east. Rajasthan State is the largest state in terms of geographical area of 342,239 sq km and seventh largest by population. As per Niti Aayog 2016 report, Total Fertility Rate is 2.7 higher than India's average of 2.3. One-Third of state constitute of desert area, popularly known as Thar desert which accounts for 102,000 sq km in Rajasthan in the western side. Rajasthan population in 2025 is estimated to be 81.1 million (8.11 Crores), By Aug 2023 Rajasthan population is projected to be 8.1 crores as per Unique Identification Aadhar India, updated 31, May 2023. As per NFHS 2019-2021 report, Total Fertility Rate of Rajasthan State is 2 children per women compared to 2.4 in 2016. Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan with more than 3 million and other popular cities are Jodhpur, Kota of more than one million population each, state economy is mainly dependent on agriculture, manufacturing and mining. Rajasthan is the major tourist state with many forts and palaces.

Source Image: Rajasthani people gathering at Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Census year	Persons	Absolute	Percentage	Males	Females
1901	10,294,090	-	-	5,403,989	4,890,101
1911	10,983,509	689,419	6.7	5,756,206	5,227,303
1921	10,292,648	-690,861	-6.29	5,429,378	4,863,270
1931	11,747,974	1,455,326	14.14	6,160,610	5,587,364
1941	13,863,859	2,115,885	18.01	7,274,679	6,589,180
1951	15,970,774	2,106,915	15.2	8,313,883	7,656,891
1961	20,155,602	4,184,828	26.2	10,564,082	9,591,520
1971	25,765,806	5,610,204	27.83	13,484,383	12,281,423
1981	34,261,862	8,496,056	32.97	17,854,154	16,407,708
1991	44,005,990	9,744,128	28.44	23,042,780	20,963,210
2001	56,507,188	12,501,198	28.41	29,420,011	27,087,177
2011	68,548,437	12,041,249	21.31	35,550,997	32,997,440

Source: A-2 Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901

Population Pyramid

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

Rajasthan Population by Religion

Rajasthani people make up the majority of the state, Hinduism is the main religion in Rajasthan state with 88.49%, followed by muslim with 9% of the population. Other religions like Sikh, Buddhism, Jainism and Christianity are less than 1%. Religion wise Rajasthan Muslim population 6.2 Million is the second largest after Hindu population, followed by Sikh and Jain with 872,930 and 622,023 people.

Religion	Persons	Percentage	Males	Females
Hindu	60,657,103	88.49	31,485,832	29,171,271
Muslim	6,215,377	9.07	3,193,530	3,021,847
Christian	96,430	0.14	48,887	47,543
Sikh	872,930	1.27	459,406	413,524
Buddhist	12,185	0.02	6,382	5,803
Jain	622,023	0.91	317,614	304,409
Others	4,676	0.01	2,399	2,277
Not Stated	67,713	0.10	36,947	30,766

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

Ethnic groups of Rajasthan

Tribes	Population as per Census 2011
All Scheduled Tribes	9,238,534
Bhil, Bhil Garasia, Dholi Bhil, Dungri Bhil, Dungri Garasia, Mewasi Bhil, Rawal Bhil, Tadvi Bhil, Bhagalia, Bhilala, Pawra, Vasava, Vasave	4,100,264
Bhil Mina	105,393
Damor, Damaria	91,463
Dhanka, Tadvi, Tetaria, Valvi	96,737
Garasia (excluding Rajput Garasia)	314,194
Kathodi, Katkari, Dhor Kathodi, Dhor Katkari, Son Kathodi, Son Katkari	4,833
Kokna, Kokni, Kukna	361
Koli Dhor, Tokre Koli, Kolcha, Kolgha	1,535
Mina	4,345,528
Naikda, Nayaka, Cholivala Nayaka, Kapadia Nayaka, Mota Nayaka, Nana Nayaka	8,355
Patelia	797
Seharia, Sehria, Sahariya	111,377
Generic Tribes etc.	57,697

Languages spoken in Rajasthan

Hindi is the official language and widely spoken through out the state. As per 2011 statstics 89% of the state enrolled Hindi as mother tongue and Bhili as 5.2%.

Other than Hindi, Many of the neighbourhood state people have migrated to Rajasthan and almost every one in the state speaks Hindi. 3.3% enrolled as Punjabi and other languages like Sindhi, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam and Marathi is below 1%. Sindhi's have migrated from Pakistan's Sindh Province at the time of partition in 1947.

Languages	Persons	Percentage	Rural	Urban
Hindi	61,274,274	89.3883	45,740,708	15,533,566
Bhili	3,592,208	5.2404	3,468,974	123,234
Punjabi	2,274,342	3.3179	1,860,271	414,071
Urdu	664,915	0.9700	113,738	551,177
Sindhi	386,569	0.5639	152,665	233,904
Bengali	81,658	0.1191	31,423	50,235
Gujarati	67,490	0.0985	29,036	38,454
Malayalam	24,439	0.0357	6,431	18,008
Marathi	23,240	0.0339	6,902	16,338
Odia	17,047	0.0249	6,047	11,000
Maithili	11,666	0.0170	2,646	9,020
Tamil	8,939	0.0130	2,450	6,489
Telugu	8,350	0.0122	2,548	5,802
Nepali	7,636	0.0111	1,849	5,787
Kannada	5,931	0.0087	1,639	4,292
Dogri	5,120	0.0075	1,583	3,537
Kashmiri	4,164	0.0061	2,372	1,792
Assamese	2,877	0.0042	972	1,905
Sanskrit	2,375	0.0035	1,461	914
Manipuri	2,168	0.0032	1,295	873

Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Disability

Type of disability	Total Persons	Cultivators	Agriculture labor	HHI	Other workers
Total disabled population	541,842	235,244	95,010	15,336	196,252
In Seeing	115,414	52,603	19,621	3,315	39,875
In Hearing	90,150	40,353	15,634	2,562	31,601
In Speech	29,132	11,878	4,547	796	11,911
In Movement	150,430	61,596	24,317	4,403	60,114
Mental Retardation	22,558	9,864	5,283	517	6,894
Mental Illness	10,889	5,239	2,421	245	2,984
Any Other	90,552	37,597	16,372	2,541	34,042
Multiple disability	32,717	16,114	6,815	957	8,831

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

Rajasthan Population projection

According to UID, Rajasthan population in 2022 is estimated to be 80.15 million (8.01 Crores), in 2021 is estimated to be 79.28 million (7.92 Crores), population in 2020 is estimated to be 81 million (8.1 Crores), and population in 2023 is estimated to be 81.03 million.

District wise population in Rajasthan

The Rajasthan state has 33 districts. Jaipur district is the largest district with more than 7 million population, and Jaisalmer is the smallest by population and largest by area. Below is the Rajasthan district wise population as per Census 2011 and 2020 projection.

District	Population(2020 est.)	Population(2011)	Percentage
Ganganagar	2,244,852	1,969,168	2.87
Hanumangarh	2,023,149	1,774,692	2.59
Bikaner	2,694,888	2,363,937	3.45
Churu	2,325,084	2,039,547	2.98
Jhunjhunun	2,436,231	2,137,045	3.12
Alwar	4,188,564	3,674,179	5.36
Bharatpur	2,905,247	2,548,462	3.72
Dhaulpur	1,375,428	1,206,516	1.76
Karauli	1,662,403	1,458,248	2.13
Sawai Madhopur	1,522,528	1,335,551	1.95
Dausa	1,863,226	1,634,409	2.38
Jaipur	7,553,843	6,626,178	9.67
Sikar	3,052,160	2,677,333	3.91
Nagaur	3,770,827	3,307,743	4.83
Jodhpur	4,203,368	3,687,165	5.38
Jaisalmer	763,708	669,919	0.98
Barmer	2,968,276	2,603,751	3.80
Jalor	2,084,752	1,828,730	2.67
Sirohi	1,181,434	1,036,346	1.51
Pali	2,322,833	2,037,573	2.97
Ajmer	2,944,679	2,583,052	3.77
Tonk	1,620,312	1,421,326	2.07
Bundi	1,266,433	1,110,906	1.62
Bhilwara	2,745,716	2,408,523	3.51
Rajsamand	1,318,521	1,156,597	1.69
Dungarpur	1,582,949	1,388,552	2.03
Banswara	2,049,133	1,797,485	2.62
Chittaurgarh	1,760,545	1,544,338	2.25
Kota	2,224,156	1,951,014	2.85
Baran	1,393,941	1,222,755	1.78
Jhalawar	1,608,687	1,411,129	2.06
Udaipur	3,497,999	3,068,420	4.48
Pratapgarh	989,347	867,848	1.27