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INDIA
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Population:
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1,000,848,550
(July 1999 est.) |
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Age
Structure:
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0-14
years: 34% (male 175,463,726; female 165,722,164)
15-64 years: 61% (male 318,004,920; female 295,245,556)
65 years and over: 5% (male 23,571,270; female 22,840,914)
(1999 est.) |
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Population
Growth Rate:
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1.68% (1999 est.) |
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Birth
Rate:
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25.39
births/1,000 population (1999 est.) |
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Death
Rate:
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8.5
deaths/1,000 population (1999 est.) |
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Net
Migration Rate:
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-0.08
migrant(s)/1,000 population (1999 est.) |
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Sex
Ratio:
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at
birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.03 male(s)/female
total population: 1.07 male(s)/female (1999 est.) |
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Infant
Mortality Rate:
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60.81 deaths/1,000 live births (1999 est.) |
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Life
Expectancy at Birth:
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total
population: 63.4 years
male: 62.54 years
female: 64.29 years (1999 est.) |
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Total
Fertility Rate:
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3.18
children born/woman (1999 est.) |
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Nationality:
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noun:
Indian(s)
adjective: Indian |
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Ethnic
Groups:
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Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% |
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Religions:
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Hindu
80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist 0.7%, Jains
0.5%, other 0.4% |
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Languages:
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English
enjoys associate status but is the most important language for
national, political, and commercial communication, Hindi the national
language and primary tongue of 30% of the people, Bengali (official),
Telugu (official), Marathi (official), Tamil (official), Urdu
(official), Gujarati (official), Malayalam (official), Kannada
(official), Oriya (official), Punjabi (official), Assamese (official),
Kashmiri (official), Sindhi (official), Sanskrit (official), Hindustani
(a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern
India)
note: 24 languages each spoken by a million or more persons;
numerous other languages and dialects, for the most part mutually
unintelligible |
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Literacy:
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definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 52%
male: 65.5%
female: 37.7% (1995 est.) |
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