States of India by Urdu speakers

As per Government of India census data of 2011, the total number of Urdu speakers in India were 62,772,631. [1][2]

Urdu is officially recognised in India and has official status in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to which the language has remained deeply attached through its medieval history of Muslim sultanates and empires, and the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,[3] Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, and Gujarat

Regional distribution

Following is a list of States and Union Territories of India by speakers of Urdu census data with estimated 2001 speakers.[4]

Following is speaker's strength data of Urdu language for decades of 1971, 1981, 1991 & 2001:[5][6]

Language	Persons who returned the language as their mother tongue[7]					Percentage to total population
Language	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Urdu	28,620,895	34,941,435	43,406,932	51,536,111	50,772,631	5.22	5.25	5.18	5.01	4.19

Following is ranking data of Urdu language for decades of 1971, 1981, 1991 & 2001:[8]

Urdu: its rank and percentage to total population
1971		1981		1991		2001		2011
Rank	%	Rank	%	Rank	%	Rank	%	Rank	%
6	5.22	5	5.25	6	5.18**	6	5.01	7	4.19

"**" Census was not conducted in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir

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