Demographics
See also: Goans| Population Growth | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1951 | 547,000 |
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| 1961 | 590,000 | 7.9% | |
| 1971 | 795,000 | 34.7% | |
| 1981 | 1,008,000 | 26.8% | |
| 1991 | 1,170,000 | 16.1% | |
| 2001 | 1,347,668 | 15.2% | |
| 2011 | 1,457,723 | 8.2% | |
| Source:Census of India | |||
A native of Goa is called a Goan in English, Goenkar in Konkani, goês or goesa in Portuguese and Govekar in Marathi. Goa has a population of 1.344 million residents, making it India's fourth smallest (after Sikkim, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh). The population has a growth rate of 14.9% per decade. There are 363 people for each square kilometre of land. Goa is the state with highest proportion of urban population with 49.76% of the population living in urban areas. The literacy rate of Goa is over 87%. The sex ratio is 968 females to 1000 males. The birth rate is 15.70 per 1,000 people in 2007. Goa also is the state with lowest proportion of Scheduled Tribes at 0.04%.
According to the 2001 census, out of a total population of 1,343,998 people, 886,551 (65.7%) were Hindus, 359,568 (26.6%) were Christians, 92,210 (6.8%) were Muslims, 970 (0.01%) were Sikhs, 649 (0.001%) were Buddhists, 820 (0.005%) were Jains and 353 (0.0005%) belonged to other religious communities.
| Religion in Goa | ||||
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| Hinduism | 65.7% | |||
| Christianity | 26.6% | |||
| Islam | 6.8% | |||
| Others | 0.9% | |||
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