The document summarizes the total and tribal population of Maharashtra state from 1961 to 2001 in 4 decade intervals. It shows that the total population increased from 39.55 million in 1961 to 96.879 million in 2001. The tribal population increased from 2.307 million in 1961 to 8.577 million in 2001. The percentage of the tribal population to the total population increased from 5.83% in 1961 to a peak of 9.27% in 1991 before declining slightly to 8.85% in 2001.