The population of the country below 35 years of age is 51.8%. Of this 48.2% are women and 51.8% are men, 30.1% reside in urban areas and 69.9% is based in rural India.18-35 years of age are 31.3%.
The first-time voters, estimated from the Census data and adjusting for the fact that the survey was conducted in 2011, stacks up to 149.36 million—the Election Commission estimates the total number of voters to be 725 million.
According to the provisional census data released earlier, of India’s 1.21 billion population, 833 million people live in rural India and 377 million reside in urban India; 31.2% of the total population lives in urban centres compared with 27.8% in 2001 and 25.5% in 1991.
According to the Housing Census data for 2011, people in rural India saw significant improvement in access to banking facilities with over one in two households having access to a bank as compared with a little less than one in three in the 2001 Census.
Some consumer durables have seen a dramatic increase in terms of penetration (or the proportion of households they reach)—nearly one in two rural households now owns a mobile phone compared with two out of three in urban households. The data also shows that one in three rural households now owns a television set compared with almost one in five a decade ago. In comparison, 76.7% urban households now have television sets against 64.3% in 2001.
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