Population: | 1,147,995,898 (July 2008 est.) |
Age structure: | 0-14 years: 31.5% (male 189,238,487/female 172,168,306) |
Median age: | total: 25.1 years |
Population growth rate: | 1.578% (2008 est.) |
Birth rate: | 22.22 births/1,000 population (2008 est.) |
Death rate: | 6.4 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.) |
Net migration rate: | -0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.) |
Sex ratio: | at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female |
Infant mortality rate: | total: 32.31 deaths/1,000 live births |
Life expectancy at birth: | total population: 69.25 years |
Total fertility rate: | 2.76 children born/woman (2008 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: | 0.9% (2001 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: | 5.1 million (2001 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - deaths: | 310,000 (2001 est.) |
Major infectious diseases: | degree of risk: high |
Nationality: | noun: Indian(s) |
Ethnic groups: | Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
Religions: | Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census) |
Languages: | English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 21 other official languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanscrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language |
Literacy: | definition: age 15 and over can read and write |
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