Jains as a share of the population in India 1951-2011

In 2011, around 0.4 percent of the population identified with Jainism as their religion, a slight increase from about 0.46 percent in 1951. Overall, India has been a religiously pluralistic and multiethnic democracy with people of several faiths.于2011年，大约0.4%的人口将耆那教视为其宗教信仰，相较于1951年的0.46%略有增长。总体而言，印度一直是一个宗教多元、多民族共存并具有民主传统的国家，国民信仰各异。