Citizens and nationals of India
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Indians Flag of India
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c. 1.4 billion Indian diaspora :c. 17.9 million [ 1] United States 4,946,306[ 2] Saudi Arabia 3,255,864[ 3] Malaysia 2,975,000[ 3] United Arab Emirates 2,803,751[ 3] Canada 1,858,755[ a] United Kingdom 1,825,000[ 3] Sri Lanka 1,614,000[ 3] South Africa 1,560,000[ 3] Nigeria 1,000,000[ 4] Mauritius 894,500[ 3] Oman 796,001[ 5] Australia 700,000[ 6] Kuwait 700,000[ 7] Qatar 650,000[ 8] Nepal 600,000[ 9] Bangladesh 500,000-1,000,000[ 10] Germany 161,000-1,000,000+[ 11] [ 5] Trinidad and Tobago 468,524[ 5] Thailand 465,000[ 5] Bahrain 400,000[ 5] Guyana 327,000[ 5] Fiji 315,000[ 5] Réunion (Overseas France ) 297,300[ 12] Singapore 250,300[ 13] Netherlands 240,000[ 5] Italy 197,301[ 5] New Zealand 155,178[ 14] Suriname 148,000[ 5] Indonesia 120,000[ 5] Israel 85,000[ 15] France 58,983[ 16] Japan 46,000[ 17] Portugal 24,550+[ 18] Brazil 23,254[ 19] Jamaica 21,584[ 20] Ireland 20,000+[ 21] Poland 9,900[ 22] Cayman Islands 1,218[ 23] Languages of India , including: 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 UN 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 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.
^ Singh, Ruchi (7 March 2022). "Origin of World's Largest Migrant Population, India Seeks to Leverage Immigration" . migrationpolicy.org . Retrieved 5 November 2022 .
^ "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 .
^ 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 .
^ "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 .
^ 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 .
^ "Indians are becoming visible in Australia like never before" . Lowy Institute. 28 May 2021.
^ "Kuwait MP seeks five-year cap on expat workers' stay" . Gulf News . 30 January 2014.
^ "Population of Qatar by nationality - 2017 report" . Retrieved 7 February 2017 .
^ "About India-Nepal Relations" . Embassy of India, Kathmandu, Nepal . February 2020.
^ "Dhaka has a question: what about the illegal Indian immigrants in Bangladesh?" . Scroll.in. 16 May 2014.
^ Immigration from outside Europe almost doubled Archived 9 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine . Federal Institute for Population Research. Retrieved 1 March 2017
^ "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 .
^ "Population in Brief 2015" (PDF) . Singapore Government . September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2016 .
^ "[Stats NZ" . stats.govt.nz . Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017 .
^ "Indian Community in Israel" . indembassyisrael.gov.in . Retrieved 13 March 2021 .
^ "Population on 1 January by age group, sex and country of birth" . europa.eu . Eurostat. 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023 .
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^ [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.
^ "Imigrantes internacionais registrados no Brasil" . www.nepo.unicamp.br . Retrieved 20 August 2021 .
^ "CIA World Factbook (Jamaica)" . United States Government. Archived from the original on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2007 .
^ "Indian Community In Ireland" . irelandindiacouncil.ie . Ireland India Council. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018.
^ "Cudzoziemcy w Polsce po 2020 r. - Urząd do Spraw Cudzoziemców - Portal Gov.pl" . Urząd do Spraw Cudzoziemców .
^ "Labour Force Indicators by Sex, 2014- 2019" . eso.ky . Archived from the original on 7 March 2022.
^ "Meitei" . Ethnologue . Retrieved 12 February 2023 .
^ "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.
^ "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 .
^ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah; correspondent, Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia (24 April 2023). "India overtakes China to become world's most populous country" . The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 12 July 2023 .
^ "India's population to surpass China this week - UN" . BBC. April 24, 2023. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
^ 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 .
^ 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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