World Population 2024 Wikipedia India. The estimates are based on all available sources of data on population size and levels of fertility, mortality and international migration for 237 countries or areas. Around 36 percent of the inhabitants live in the country's larger cities.

The share of indians who are 65 and older is likely to remain under 20% until 2063 and will not approach 30% until 2100, under the un’s medium variant projections. The un estimates the july 1, 2024 population at 1,450,935,791.