We all get our share of Whatsapp forwards, which most of us faithfully forward to our entire contact list promptly. Here is one that I receive frequently – “In 1947, when India was partitioned, the Hindu population in Pakistan was about 24%. Today it is not even 1%. In 1947, the Hindu population in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was 30%. Today it is about 7%. Probably even less.”
The total Indian population in 1951 was about 36 crore and currently (1917) about 130 crore. The population-share of Hindus in 1951 was 84% and those of Muslims 10%, while currently, these percentages are about 80% and 14.5% respectively. In other words, the Hindu population grew from about 30 crore to 104 crore from 1951 to 2017 (about 3.5 times), while the Muslim population grew from 3.6 crore to 10.4 crore 18.20 crore (about 5 times). What this means is that the larger Hindu population has grown at about 1.82% every year, while the Muslim growth rate has been 2.45% year on year. Happily, according to the 2011 survey, the population growth rates are now much lower, at about 1.6% for Hindus and 2% for Muslims. Do the elementary math with the annual growth rates and you will find that at the current rate of growth, it would take about 1000 years for the Muslim population to overtake the Hindu population!
The truth is the Muslim population in India has increased and that in Bangladesh diminished also because of the porous borders. If all this is accounted for, the lower Hindu population in Pakistan and Bangladesh does not imply any genocide of Hindus or mass-scale conversions in either Pakistan or Bangladesh. It is good old and simple statistics. But then no one said statistics cannot be misused!
Majority of the Hindu population of Pakistan was in its east part. After the fall of Dhaka in 1971, maximum Hindu population of Pakistan automatically become Bangladeshi. This data is manipulated by Hindu extremists over internet and they use such arguments to brainwash common Hindus.
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