India to become most populous nation by 2035

The final count released to mark World Population Day on Sunday said India's population stood at 1.029 billion on March 1, 2001.

India added 182 million people between 1991 to 2001 which is more than the estimated population of Brazil, officials said on the basis of a final tally of the 2001 census.

By 2035, the population will touch 1.46 billion outstripping China, local media quoted top census official J.K. Banthia as saying.

The population of Uttar Pradesh was 166 million, more than the population of Pakistan, he said.

The census showed that 35 percent of Indians still could not read or write. Just over half of women were literate. At the same time, the child sex ratio has slipped from 945 females per 1000 males in 1991 to 927 in 2001, the census showed.