According to the 1991 Census the population of India is ____________.

660

million

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670

million

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843

million

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690

million

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Solution

The correct option is C $843$ million
India held censuses every decade since the year 1872. The census of the year 1991 was the 13th in the series of all the census held. The population of India is counted as 838,583,988. Moreover, the number of enumerators was 1.6 million.
Thus, the correct answer is C.

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