Demographics

Population Trend
Census	Pop.		%±
1961	35,983,000		—
1971	43,503,000		20.9%
1981	53,550,000		23.1%
1991	66,508,000		24.2%
2001	75,727,000		13.9%
2011	84,655,533		11.8%
Source:Census of India

Telugu is the official language of the state, spoken by 83% of the population. Major linguistic minority groups include Urdu (8.63%), Hindi (3.23%), and Tamil (1.01%).

Other languages spoken in Andhra Pradesh by less than 1% each are Marathi (0.8%), Kannada(0.74%), and Oriya (0.44%). Languages spoken by less than 0.2% of the population include Malayalam (0.08%), Gujarati (0.06%), Bengali (0.05%), Gorkhali/Nepali (0.03%), Punjabi (0.01%) and Sindhi(0.01%).

The main ethnic group of Andhra Pradesh is the Telugu people, who are primarily Dravidians.

Andhra Pradesh ranks tenth compared to all Indian States in the Human Development Index scores with a score of 0.416.

The National Council of Applied Economic Research district analysis in 2001 reveals that Khammam, Krishna, West Godavari, Chittoor, and Medak are the five districts with the highest Human Development Indexscores in ascending order in rural AP. The data show that the poor make up 16.3 per cent of the total population in rural AP and expenditure on consumption is around 13.5 per cent of the total consumption expenditure. The female literacy rate is 0.66 compared to male literacy rate in rural AP. The district-wise variations for poverty ratio are high and low for the ratio of female/male literacy rate.