This is a list of states and union territories of India by Punjabi speakers as of the 2011 census.
List
 | This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2016) |
| Rank | State or Union territory | Speakers in 2011 (% of population) (2011) |
Speakers in 2001 (% of population) (2001) |
% of population (1991) |
% of population (1981) |
% of population (1971) |
% of population (1961) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  India |
33,124,726 (2.74%) |
29,102,477 (2.83%) |
2.79% | 2.95% | 2.57% | 2.49% |
| 1 | Punjab | 24,917,885 (89.82%) |
22,334,369 (91.69%) |
92.2% | 84.88% | 79.49% | 65.6% |
| 2 | Haryana | 2,400,883 (9.47%) |
2,234,626 (10.57%) |
7.10% | 5.70% | 8.34% | – |
| 3 | Rajasthan | 2,274,342 (3.32%) |
1,141,200 (2.01%) |
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| 4 | Delhi | 873,774 (5.20%) |
988,980 (7.14%) |
7.90% | 13.00% | 13.04% | 13.30% |
| 5 | Himachal Pradesh | 615,022 (8.96%) |
364,175 (5.99%) |
6.28% | 5.70% | 4.75% | |
| 6 | Uttar Pradesh | 508,736 (0.25%) |
523,094 (0.31%) |
0.50% | 0.4% | 0.57% | |
| 7 | Maharashtra | 280,192 (0.25%) |
269,309 | ||||
| 8 | Uttarakhand | 263,310 (2.61%) |
247,084 (2.91%) |
– | – | – | – |
| 9 | Chandigarh | 232,516 (22.03%) |
251,224 (27.89%) |
34.70% | 40.20% | 40.67% | – |
| 10 | Jammu and Kashmir | 219,193 (75%) |
190,675 (74%) |
72% | 70% | ||
| 11 | Madhya Pradesh | 139,658 (0.19%) |
148,999 | ||||
| 12 | Jharkhand | 78,712 (0.24%) |
86,596 | ||||
| 13 | Chhattisgarh | 65,425 (0.26%) |
67,293 | ||||
| 14 | Gujarat | 63,288 (0.10%) |
55,810 | ||||
| 15 | West Bengal | 61,080 (0.07%) |
67,952 |
0.24% | 0.21% | ||
| 16 | Karnataka | 25,981 (0.04%) |
15,572 | ||||
| 17 | Andhra Pradesh | 24,413 (0.03%) |
23,838 | ||||
| 18 | Assam | 23,313 (0.07%) |
30,763 | ||||
| 19 | Odisha | 19,470 (0.05%) |
21,574 | ||||
| 20 | Bihar | 10,467 (0.01%) |
13,600 | ||||
| 21 | Tamil Nadu | 6,565 (0.01%) |
5,696 | ||||
| 22 | Meghalaya | 4,540 (0.15%) |
4,753 | ||||
| 23 | Arunachal Pradesh | 3,674 (0.27%) |
2,980 | ||||
| 24 | Goa | 1,959 (0.13%) |
1,815 | ||||
| 25 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 1,565 (0.41%) |
1,825 | ||||
| 26 | Kerala | 1380 | 1,668 | ||||
| 27 | Manipur | 1,370 (0.05%) |
1,438 | ||||
| 28 | Sikkim | 1,364 (0.32%) |
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| 29 | Nagaland | 1,362 (0.11%) |
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| 30 | Tripura | 997 (0.03%) |
1,637 | ||||
| 31 | Mizoram | 349 (0.03%) |
479 | ||||
| 32 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 414 (0.12%) |
283 | ||||
| 33 | Daman and Diu | 222 (0.09%) |
304 | ||||
| 34 | Puducherry | 122 (0.01%) |
131 | ||||
| 35 | Lakshadweep | 4 | 9 |
See also
Notes
- This list is of those people who declare Punjabi to be their mother tongue in the census of India. It does not list the states and union territories of India by number of ethnic Punjabis.
- Includes speakers of Bagri, Bhateali, Kahluri and other such dialects or related languages.
- Figures before 2001 include Uttarakhand
References
- "Language: India, States and Union Territories" (PDF). 2011 Census of India. Office of the Registrar General, India. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- "Language: India, States and Union Territories" (PDF). 2011 Census of India. Office of the Registrar General, India. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- "Report of the Commissioner for linguistic minorities: 50th report (July 2012 to June 2013)" (PDF). Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. p. 49. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
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- This is the data for the former state of Andhra Pradesh. This state bifurcated into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in 2014.