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India: People
- Population
- 1,065,070,607 (July 2004 est.)
- Age structure
- 0-14 years: 31.7% (male 173,869,856; female 164,003,915)
15-64 years:
63.5% (male 349,785,804; female 326,289,402)
65 years and over: 4.8% (male
25,885,725; female 25,235,905) (2004 est.)
- Median age
- total: 24.4 years
male: 24.4 years
female: 24.4 years (2004
est.)
- Population growth rate
- 1.44% (2004 est.)
- Birth rate
- 22.8 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
- Death rate
- 8.38 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
- Net migration rate
- -0.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)
- Sex ratio
- at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.03
male(s)/female
total population: 1.07 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
- Infant mortality rate
- total: 57.92 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 57.29 deaths/1,000 live
births (2004 est.)
male: 58.52 deaths/1,000 live births
- Life expectancy at birth
- total population: 63.99 years
male: 63.25 years
female:
64.77 years (2004 est.)
- Total fertility rate
- 2.85 children born/woman (2004 est.)
- HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
- 0.8% (2001 est.)
- HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS
- 3.97 million (2001 est.)
- HIV/AIDS - deaths
- 310,000 (2001 est.)
- Nationality
- noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian
- Ethnic groups
- Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
- Religions
- Hindu 81.3%, Muslim 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other groups including Buddhist, Jain,
Parsi 2.5% (2000)
- 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 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu,
Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit;
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
total population: 59.5%
male: 70.2%
female: 48.3% (2003 est.)
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