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West Bengal being an eastern state of India is situated sideways with the Bay of Bengal in the east. West Bengal’s total population in 2022 is estimated to be 101.4 million (10.14 Crores) 2022, by end of the year 2020 the projected population is 99,609,303, According to Unique Identification Aadhaar India, updated 31, Dec 2020 and it is the fourth-largest inhabited state in India. Its extent is 88,752 sq km and its compactness is 1100 people per sq km. The inherent appellation of the state is ‘PaschimBanga’, ‘Paschim’ means west, and ‘Banga’ means antique territory ‘vanga’. As per the 2016 report of Niti Aayog, the Total Fertility Rate is 1.6.
The Census of West Bengal
The survey of West Bengal was primarily conducted in 1872, and at that time in 1881, British India was noted as 62,705,718, earlier than the Bengal barrier. The West Bengal population was noted in 1901 was 16.9 million, Self-governing India’s opening census in 1951 was 26 million, the upsurge of 9 million in the duration of 50 years subsequently from 1901 to 1951. The number of inhabitants noted in 2001 was 80 million, 3 times the rise from 1951. By 2011, 91 million was noted, a 13.8% rise in inhabitants from the 2001 census. The number of inhabitants in 2021 will be 99 million and the development rate is 8.7%.
Literacy Rate
The literacy rate is well-defined by the proportion of the inhabitants of a certain age set that can recite and write. The fully-grown literacy rate matches ages 15 and more, the youth literacy rate to the age of 15 to 24, and the age to ages 65 and more. It is classically measured rendering to the capability to understand a short simple sentence in everyday life. Usually, literacy also includes proficiency, and measurement may include a simple valuation of arithmetic capability. The literacy rate and figure of literates should be eminent from functional literacy, and an additional all-inclusive amount of literacy measured on a continuum in which manifold expertise levels can be resolved.
India: The outcomes of the 2011 census disclose that there has been an upsurge in literacy in the nation. The literacy rate in the nation is 74.04 percent, 82.14 for men, and 65.46 for ladies.
West Bengal: West Bengal has a literacy rate of 76.26% above the national average of 74.04%, as per the 2011 Census, West Bengal positions 20th in terms of literacy rate among the 36 states and union territories in India. Male literacy counts for 81.69% and females for 70.54%.
Rural and Urban Population
The entire population of the rural areas of the state of West Bengal was 62,183,113. The information in the board on Conditional Inhabitants Wholes is offered distinctly for rural and urban parts. The part of cataloging in this respect is ‘town’ for urban parts and ‘village’ for countryside parts. In the Census of India which took place in 2011, the meaning of urban part approved is as follows: (a) All constitutional places with a town, establishment, encampment panel or informed urban part board, etc. (b) A residence sustaining the subsequent three measures in chorus:
- the least residents of 5,000;
- minimum 75 %of a man employed residents involved in non-agricultural quests; and
- compactness of residents of a minimum of 400 per square km.
For documentation of areas which would succeed to be off the record as ‘urban’ entirely all villages, which, as per the 2001 Survey had residents of 4,000 and more, an inhabitants compactness of 400 people per square km. and consuming a minimum of 75 % of a man employed inhabitants involved in non-agricultural action were measured.
Conclusion
West Bengal has now arisen as the maximum compactly occupied state in India. The number of inhabitants of West Bengal almost doubled between 1971 and 2001, even though the productiveness proportion in West Bengal has weakened recklessly. The number of urban inhabitants has been rising at a quicker rate than the rural inhabitants. There are great changes in the density of inhabitants between the diverse regions, the regions of south-central West Bengal being usually more compactly occupied than those in the other areas. But the less compactly occupied regions are also not as good as served by infrastructural amenities as the rest.
