Muslim growth rate outstrips Hindu in India
India's Muslim and Christian minority communities are growing at a fister rate than |he Hindu majority in the country of more than one billion people, a new census report shows.
Hindus, whose growth rate has declined in the past decade, constituted 80.5 percent or 828 million while Muslims made up 13.4 percent or 138 million, according to religion-based data posted on the census commission's website yesterday.
Christians comprised 2.3 percent or 24 million of the population, and grew at a rate of 22.6 percent in the decade to 2001.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "Among the six major religious communities the decadal growth of the Muslims is the highest at 36.0 percent," the commission said.
"The groth rate of the Hindu population has come down from 25.1 percent in 1981-1991 to 20.4 percent in 1991-2001," it noted, without analysing why.
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