According to the Census of 2011, Bihar was which most populous state of India?
- A.Second
- B.Third
- C.Fourth
- D.Fifth
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, third. Bihar had 10,40,99,452 people in 2011, about 10.41 crore, which placed it third after Uttar Pradesh with about 19.98 crore and Maharashtra with about 11.24 crore. Option A is wrong because the second place belongs to Maharashtra, whose industrial cities have drawn migrants for a century. Option C is wrong because the fourth place belongs to West Bengal, with about 9.13 crore. Option D is wrong because Madhya Pradesh, with about 7.26 crore, holds the fifth place. The chain Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh is worth learning in order, because questions are set both ways, asking for the rank of a state and for the state at a given rank. The share of Bihar in the population of India was about 8.6 per cent in 2011, and it has risen at every census since 1991.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich state had the highest density of population in the Census of 2011?
- A.West Bengal
- B.Bihar
- C.Kerala
- D.Uttar Pradesh
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Bihar recorded 1,106 persons per square kilometre in 2011, the highest of any state, because the alluvial plain of the Ganga is fertile, level and watered, and the state has very little forest or hill to thin the settlement.
Read the full explanation →Which state recorded the lowest literacy rate in the Census of 2011?
- A.Jharkhand
- B.Bihar
- C.Arunachal Pradesh
- D.Rajasthan
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Bihar had a literacy rate of 61.80 per cent in 2011, the lowest of any state, with male literacy at 71.20 per cent and female literacy at 51.50 per cent, so barely half the women of the state were counted as literate.
Read the full explanation →The decadal growth of population of Bihar between 2001 and 2011 was:
- A.17.7 per cent
- B.25.42 per cent
- C.20.23 per cent
- D.13.4 per cent
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Bihar grew by 25.42 per cent between the censuses of 2001 and 2011, the fastest among the large states of India, which is why its share in the population of the country keeps rising.
Read the full explanation →What was the sex ratio of Bihar in the Census of 2011?
- A.943
- B.918
- C.912
- D.933
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Bihar had 918 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, below the national figure, while its child sex ratio for ages nought to six was 935, which is better than the national child sex ratio.
Read the full explanation →Which was the least populous district of Bihar according to the Census of 2011?
- A.Sheohar
- B.Sheikhpura
- C.Arwal
- D.Kaimur
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Sheikhpura, a small district carved out of Munger, had the smallest population of all the districts of Bihar in 2011, while Patna had the largest.
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