| People | India |
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Population:
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1,189,172,906 (July 2011 est.) |
Population density:
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400 people per sq km land area |
Urbanization:
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urban population: 30% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 2.4% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) |
Major cities - population:
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NEW DELHI (capital) 21.72 million; Mumbai 19.695 million; Kolkata 15.294 million; Chennai 7.416 million; Bangalore 7.079 million (2009) |
Age structure:
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0-14 years: 29.7% (male 187,450,635/female 165,415,758)
15-64 years: 64.9% (male 398,757,331/female 372,719,379)
65 years and over: 5.5% (male 30,831,190/female 33,998,613) (2011 est.) |
Median age:
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total: 26.2 years
male: 25.6 years
female: 26.9 years (2011 est.) |
Population growth rate:
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1.344% (2011 est.) |
Birth rate:
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20.97 births/1,000 population (2011 est.) |
Death rate:
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7.48 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.) |
Net migration rate:
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-0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2011 est.) |
Sex ratio:
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at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.13 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female
total population: 1.08 male(s)/female (2011 est.) |
Maternal mortality rate:
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230 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) |
Infant mortality rate:
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total: 47.57 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 46.18 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 49.14 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.) |
Life expectancy at birth:
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total population: 66.8 years
male: 65.77 years
female: 67.95 years (2011 est.) |
Total fertility rate:
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2.62 children born/woman (2011 est.) |
Health expenditures:
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2.4% of GDP (2009) |
Physicians density:
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0.599 physicians/1,000 population (2005) |
Hospital bed density:
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0.9 beds/1,000 population (2005) |
Drinking water source:
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improved:
urban: 96% of population
rural: 84% of population
total: 88% of population
unimproved:
urban: 4% of population
rural: 16% of population
total: 12% of population (2008) |
Sanitation facility access:
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improved:
urban: 54% of population
rural: 21% of population
total: 31% of population
unimproved:
urban: 46% of population
rural: 79% of population
total: 69% of population (2008) |
Major infectious diseases:
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degree of risk: high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: chikungunya, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria
animal contact disease: rabies
water contact disease: leptospirosis
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009) |
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
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0.3% (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
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2.4 million (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
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170,000 (2009 est.) |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
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43.5% (2006) |
Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
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void |
Nationality:
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noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian |
Ethnic groups:
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Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
Religions:
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Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census) |
Languages:
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Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the most widely spoken language and primary tongue of 41% 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 (2001 census) |
Literacy:
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definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 61%
male: 73.4%
female: 47.8% (2001 census) |
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
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total: 10 years
male: 11 years
female: 10 years (2007) |
Education expenditures - percent of GDP:
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3.1% of GDP (2006) |
People - note:
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void |
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