Indian people

For other uses, see Indian (disambiguation).

Indians
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Countries with a significant population with Indian ancestry.
  India
  + 1,000,000
  + 100,000
  + 10,000
  + 1,000
  No data
Total population
c. 1.4 billion
Regions with significant populations
Indian diaspora:
c. 32,285,425 (2023 estimate, including people of Indian origin)[1]
United States United States4,946,306[2]
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia3,255,864[3]
Malaysia Malaysia2,975,000[3]
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates2,803,751[3]
Canada Canada1,858,755[a]
United Kingdom United Kingdom1,825,000[3]
Sri LankaSri Lanka1,614,000[3]
South Africa South Africa1,560,000[3]
Nigeria Nigeria1,000,000[4]
Mauritius Mauritius894,500[3]
Oman Oman796,001[5]
Australia Australia700,000[6]
Kuwait Kuwait700,000[7]
Qatar Qatar650,000[8]
Nepal Nepal600,000[9]
BangladeshBangladesh500,000-1,000,000[10]
Germany Germany161,000-1,000,000+[11][5]
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago468,524[5]
Thailand Thailand465,000[5]
BahrainBahrain400,000[5]
Guyana Guyana327,000[5]
FijiFiji315,000[5]
Réunion Réunion (Overseas France)297,300[12]
Singapore Singapore250,300[13]
Netherlands Netherlands240,000[5]
Italy Italy197,301[5]
New Zealand New Zealand155,178[14]
Suriname Suriname148,000[5]
Indonesia Indonesia120,000[5]
Israel Israel85,000[15]
France France58,983[16]
Japan Japan46,000[17]
Portugal Portugal24,550+[18]
Brazil Brazil23,254[19]
Jamaica Jamaica21,584[20]
Republic of Ireland Ireland20,000+[21]
Poland Poland9,900[22]
Cayman Islands Cayman Islands2,081[23]
Languages
Languages of India, including:
Religion
Majority:
Minorities:

Indian people or Indians are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups. According to United Nations forecasts, India overtook China as the world's most populous country by the end of April 2023, containing 17.50 percent of the global population.[26][27][28] In addition to the Indian population, the Indian overseas diaspora also boasts large numbers, particularly in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, former British colonies, and the Western world.[5]

While the demonym "Indian" applies to people originating from the present-day Republic of India, it was also used as the identifying term for people originating from what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh prior to the Partition of India in 1947.[29][30]

Particularly in North America, the terms "Asian Indian" and "East Indian" are sometimes used to differentiate Indians from the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Although the misidentification of indigenous Americans as Indians occurred during the European colonization of the Americas, the term "Indian" is still used as an identifier for indigenous populations in North America and the Caribbean. This usage is growing rarer, as terms such as indigenous, Amerindian, and specifically First Nations in Canada, and Native American in the United States, are widely used in official discourse and in law.

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  2. ^ "Asian Alone or in Combination With One or More Other Races, and With One or More Asian Categories for Selected Groups". United States Census Bureau. United States Department of Commerce. 2022. Archived from the original on 28 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Population of Overseas Indians (Compiled in December, 2017)" (PDF). Ministry of External Affairs. 21 December 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  4. ^ "There are only 50,000 Nigerians living in India, but there are over a million Indians living in Nigeria". aljazeera. Archived from the original on 3 January 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Population of Overseas Indians" (PDF). Ministry of External Affairs (India). 31 December 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Indians are becoming visible in Australia like never before". Lowy Institute. 28 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Kuwait MP seeks five-year cap on expat workers' stay". Gulf News. 30 January 2014.
  8. ^ "Population of Qatar by nationality - 2017 report". Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  9. ^ "About India-Nepal Relations". Embassy of India, Kathmandu, Nepal. February 2020. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Dhaka has a question: what about the illegal Indian immigrants in Bangladesh?". Scroll.in. 16 May 2014.
  11. ^ Immigration from outside Europe almost doubled Archived 9 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Federal Institute for Population Research. Retrieved 1 March 2017
  12. ^ "Population of Overseas Indians". mea.gov.in. Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. 15 February 2023. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  13. ^ "Population in Brief 2015" (PDF). Singapore Government. September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  14. ^ "[Stats NZ". stats.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  15. ^ "Indian Community in Israel". indembassyisrael.gov.in. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  16. ^ "Population on 1 January by age group, sex and country of birth". europa.eu. Eurostat. 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  17. ^ 令和５年６月末現在における在留外国人数について
  18. ^ [1] Archived 14 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine Portugal signs agreement with India on labour recruitment of Indian citizens, Observador with Lusa Agency, in Portuguese, Retrieved 14.12.2022.
  19. ^ "Imigrantes internacionais registrados no Brasil". www.nepo.unicamp.br. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  20. ^ "CIA World Factbook (Jamaica)". United States Government. Archived from the original on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2007.
  21. ^ "Indian Community In Ireland". irelandindiacouncil.ie. Ireland India Council. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018.
  22. ^ "Cudzoziemcy w Polsce po 2020 r. - Urząd do Spraw Cudzoziemców - Portal Gov.pl". Urząd do Spraw Cudzoziemców.
  23. ^ "Labour Force Indicators by Sex, 2014- 2019". eso.ky. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022.
  24. ^ "Meitei". Ethnologue. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  25. ^ "Manipuri language | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 12 February 2023. Manipuri language, Manipuri Meiteilon, also called Meitei (Meetei), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken predominantly in Manipur, a northeastern state of India.
  26. ^ "India to overtake China as world's most populous country in April 2023, United Nations projects". United Nations. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  27. ^ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah; Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (24 April 2023). "India overtakes China to become world's most populous country". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  28. ^ "India's population to surpass China this week - UN". BBC. April 24, 2023. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
  29. ^ Stern, Robert W. (2001). Democracy and Dictatorship in South Asia: Dominant Classes and Political Outcomes in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 6. ISBN 9780275970413.
  30. ^ Henry Newman (1921). The Calcutta Review. University of Calcutta. p. 252. I have also found that Bombay is India, Satara is India, Bangalore is India, Madras is India, Delhi, Lahore, the Khyber, Lucknow, Calcutta, Cuttack, Shillong, etc., are all India.


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