 |
People |
|
|
| Population |
1,065,070,607
(2003) |
| Age
Structure |
0-14
years: 32.7% (male 175,858,386; female 165,724,901)
15-64 years: 62.6% (male 338,957,463; female 316,063,497)
65 years and over: 4.7% (male 24,975,465; female 24,265,514)
(2003) |
| Population
Growth Rate |
1.4%
(2003) |
Human
development
index (HDI) value |
0.590
(2003) |
Population
without sustainable access to an
improved water source (%) |
16
(2003) |
Population
below
income poverty line
(%) |
28.6
(2003) |
Urban
population
(as % of total) |
27.9
(2003) |
| Births
attended by skilled health personnel (%) |
43
(2003) |
Under
nourished people
(as % of total population) |
24
(2003) |
| People
living with HIV/AIDS |
Adults
(% age 15-49): 0.79 Women (age 15-49):1,500,000 Children (age
0-14):170,000 (2003) |
| Life
expectancy at birth |
63.9
(2003) |
Infant
mortality rate
(per 1,000 live births) |
67
(2003) |
Probability
at birth of
surviving to age 65 |
Female
(% of cohort):67.5 Male (% of cohort): 61.9
(2003) |
Adult
literacy rate
(% age 15 and above) |
60%
(2003) |
Telephone
mainlines
(per 1,000 people) |
38
(2003) |
Gender-related
development index
(GDI) |
0.574
(2003) |
Seats
in parliament
held by women
(as % of total) |
9.3
(2003) |
| Birth
Rate |
22.8/1000/1,000
population (2003) |
| Death
Rate |
8.62
deaths/1,000 population (2003)
|
| Net
Migration Rate |
-0.07
migrant(s)/1,000 population (2003)
|
| Infant
Mortality Rate |
57.9/1,000
live births (2003) |
| Life
Expectancy at Birth |
Total
population: 64.0
Female: 63.93 years (2003)
Male: 62.55 years |
| Total
Fertility Rate |
2.98
children born/woman (2003) |
| HIV/AIDS
- Adult Prevalence Rate |
0.11
Million (2003)
|
| HIV/AIDS
- people living with HIV/AIDS |
Total:
20,304 (2003) |
| HIV/AIDS
- Deaths |
310,000
(2003) |
| Ethnic
Groups |
Indo-Aryan
72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2003) |
| Religions |
Hindu
81.3%, Muslim 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other groups including
Buddhist, Jain, Parsi 2.5% (2003) |
| Languages |
English
enjoys official status and 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. (2003) |
| Literacy |
Total:
65 %
Male:75.05 %
Female: 54.16 % (2003) |
| Source:
www.worldbank.org/www.bbcworld.com/www.naco.nic.in |
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