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I am not sure what is the data source on statista but the last census happened in 2011:

http://www.simplydecoded.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TH01...

The last decade was the only one where the population growth has slowed. And even then the growth was ~17% in 10 years.

This has a nice visualisation:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/india/2017/

You can get good data by looking at birth and death records in the short term. Census is needed to normalize things over time, but they are hardly needed every year.

17% over a decade works out to 1.58% every year

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