POPULATION OF INDIA IN DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS AND THEIR PROPORTIONS TO TATAL POPULATION : Census of India 2001.

Age group	Population	Percentage
All Ages	1,028,610,328	100.0
0 - 4	110,447,164	10.7
5 - 9	128,316,790	12.5
10 - 14	124,846,858	12.1
15- 19	100,215,890	9.7
20 - 24	89,764,132	8.7
25 - 44	284,008,819	27.6
45 - 64	139,166,661	13.5
65 - 79	41,066,824	4.0
80+	8,038,718	0.8
Less Than 18	422,808,543	41.1
Less than 21	492,193,906	47.9
Age no stated	2,738,472	0.3
Source : C2 and C14 Table, India, Census of India 2001.

   The number ‘Widowed’ persons, mostly females, are more than 44 million in the country. In the age group 15-49 years, the prime child bearing age group, 81.4% of the women are married. This percentage is high due to lower female age at marriage in many parts of the country.

   

TABLE 7: POPULATION BY MARITAL STATUS AND SEX: INDIA – 2001

Marital status	Number of Persons ( in '000)			Percentage (%)
	Persons	Males	Females	Males	Females
Total	1,028,610	532,157	496,454	100	100
Never Married	512,668	289,619	223,048	49.8	54.4
Married	468,593	231,820	236,773	45.6	43.6
Widowed	44,019	9,729	34,290	4.3	1.8
Divorced / Separated	3,331	988	2,343	0.3	0.2
Source : C2 and C14 Table, India, Census of India 2001

   The following graph present the percentage of males and females to total males and females by their marital status in India as per Census 2001. As per Census 2001, the mean age at marriage for females, who married in the last five years, has been 23.5 years in the country. Among females the mean age at marriage varied from 17.8 years (Rajsthan) to 24.0 years (Goa), while among males it varied from 20.5 years (Rajsthan) to 28.2 years (Goa).