What percentage of the population in India is vegetarian?

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Hazy

might be 30% in india are vegetarians .Because now days most of the people eats non vegetarian .

Ramsay James

Among hindus,(82% pop.)---
Most of Brahmins & vaishyas--Gujeratis, marwaris, jains are Pure veg. All bengalis , & all saraswat brahmins of Goa & konkan eat fish.
All kshatriyas & shoodras R non-veg.
All Muslims (9%) , Christians (3%) &Sikhs (2%0) R non-veg.
Approx. 30% would be veg. in india.

vakayil k

30% of the population in India are vegetarian.

Murugesan g

My guess - 25% Only

Harsh...!

50% - 50%... a wild guess... however appears to be right...

Tadepalli N

i think the percentage of vegetarians is very less,because now a days in india even brahmins started eating non-veg

ananth_lucky3

As discussed in depth later, about 30% of the Indian population is completely vegetarian. However, the percentage of vegetarians
Most Indian vegetarians are lacto-vegetarians (who drink milk but avoid eggs) ...
Pacifica has the highest percentage of vegetarians in Pemhakamik. ...
Largest number and highest percentage of Orientals of any Pemhakamik population.
The eastern and central regions of India account for roughly 20 percent of egg ... A large portion of the population is lacto-vegetarian, so milk and dairy ...
In many ways, south India's vegetarian cuisine is more representative of what most Indians eat. More than 80 percent of India's population are vegetarians, ...
But the survey reveals that only 31 percent of Indian individuals and only 21 percent of families are vegetarian.
Prolonged cooking of vegetables which destroys over ninety percent of the folate content ... cobalamin deficiency in the large Indian vegetarian population...
The net result is a comparatively lower number of Indian restaurants in the USA. ... Indians have a high percentage of the population that is vegetarian. ...
Many can only afford a vegetarian diet. Meat may be. regularly consumed by less than 30 percent of the Indian. population, due to its higher cost

chennai veeran

40% percentage of population.

Abheek

It is getting lower and lower. My Brahmin friend enjoys eating chicken and I guess many more Brahmins eat.

ciscoan

30%

WildGuess

A very small percentage, my guess is between 5%-9%.
Vegetarianism is mostly constrainted by Religion or Choice.
But, even among the Hindus: the Brahmins, the Banias (Vanias) and a small percentage of Kshatriya's and the Jains whose religion prescribes be Vegetarian, we find a large percentage to be non-vegetarian by choice. 25% of the combined Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jews, Parsi, Buddhist, and others are not required by their religion to be vegetarian, it is not uncommon to find a vegetarian Sikh, though a very small percentage among these are found to be vegetarian by choice.
Also, how would you categorize people who have been eating non-vegetarain for a while and then turned vegetarian either by choice or religious(faith) belief or people who are vegetarian for the major part of their life and then decided to be non-veg eaters?

juicyah

more than 75%

dipta_j

The Veggy populations should not be more that 25%. though the perception is different.

Let's check some facts.

Fish is abundant in all coastal states and makes an integral part of the meal for people in these states, only handful of upper cast people pretend to be "Veggy" to distinct them from others, but given a chance and anonymity, they also enjoy the meat or fish.

The Himalayan region is with full of meat eaters, and cattle becomes a part of the micro economy of these states. People from North Eastern states are die hard meat eaters.

Now you have the "Cow Belt" where the cattle breeders endorse the Milk and Ghee as the main diet. But tell me what happens to these millions of cows and buffalos after they don't produce milk? I have never heard of mass culling of these animals in any state of India. So my dear, it's consumed by our own fellow countrymen, don't try to judge their religion or faith.

I know Muslim family who are Veggy by choice, I know Gujju's and Marwari's who loves Butter chicken and would die for Fish tandoory or Prawn butter garlic (but definitely not at home, and that is hypocrisy).

So eating habits are by choice only, sometimes chosen by the family, sometimes by society or community, but mostly by individuals.

After having the abundance of so much of meat and fish, how do you expect to have majority of Veggies?

minootoo

75% totally vegetarian, they do not touch non vegetarian product, exception being dairy products..

90% most of the time, they eat non veg once in a while.

BignTall

Ananth is right

30%