ANNEXURE – I

Projected Population– States/UTs

Population (in Lakhs)
SL STATE/UT 2018 SL STATE/UT 2018

1 ANDHRA PRADESH 520.32 19 ODISHA 435.5

2 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 14.93 20 PUNJAB 296.99

3 ASSAM 340.43 21 RAJASTHAN 765.92

4 BIHAR 1183.33 22 SIKKIM 6.59

5 CHHATTISGARH 284.68 23 TAMIL NADU 754.6

6 GOA 15.34 24 TELANGANA 370.3

7 GUJARAT 673.19 25 TRIPURA 39.63

8 HARYANA 284.01 26 UTTAR PRADESH 2230.03

9 HIMACHAL PRADESH 72.68 27 UTTARAKHAND 110.55

10 JHARKHAND 370.47 28 WEST BENGAL 965

11 KARNATAKA 654.5 29 A & N ISLANDS 3.96

12 KERALA 350.03 30 CHANDIGARH 11.7

13 MADHYA PRADESH 814.71 31 D & N HAVELI 5.25

14 MAHARASHTRA 1213.91 32 DAMAN & DIU 3.95

15 MANIPUR 30.8 33 DELHI UT 195.61

16 MEGHALAYA 32 34 JAMMU & KASHMIR 134.27

17 MIZORAM 11.84 35 LAKSHADWEEP 0.67

18 NAGALAND 21.34 36 PUDUCHERRY 14.81

Projected Population – Mega Cities

SL CITY Population SL CITY Population in
in Lakhs Lakhs
1 Ahmedabad (Gujarat) 63.5 10 Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) 29.2
2 Bengaluru (Karnataka) 85.0 11 Kochi (Kerala) 21.2
3 Chennai (Tamil Nadu) 87.0 12 Kolkata (West Bengal) 141.1
4 Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) 21.5 13 Kozhikode (Kerala) 20.3
5 Delhi 163.1 14 Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) 29.0
6 Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) 23.6 15 Mumbai (Maharashtra) 184.1
7 Hyderabad (Telangana) 77.5 16 Nagpur (Maharashtra) 25.0
8 Indore (Madhya Pradesh) 21.7 17 Patna (Bihar) 20.5
9 Jaipur (Rajasthan) 30.7 18 Pune (Maharashtra) 50.5
19 Surat (Gujarat) 45.8
Population Source :
For States/UTs : Report of the Technical group on Population Projections (November, 2019) National Commission
on Population, MoHFW (estimated population of 2018 based on 2011 Census).
For Mega Cities : Registrar General of India actual population of 2011 Census.

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