India People:
Population:
1,080,264,388 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 31.2% (male:173,634,432; female:163,932,475)
15-64 years: 63.9% (male:356,932,082; female:333,283,590)
65 years and over: 4.9% (male:26,542,025; female:25,939,784) (2005)
Median age:
total: 24.66 years
male: 24.64 years
female: 24.67 years (2005)
Population growth rate:
1.4% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
22.32 births
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
8.28 deaths
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.07 migrant(s)
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female (2005)
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female (2005)
15-64 years: 1.07 male(s)/female (2005)
65 years and over: 1.02 male(s)/female (2005)
total population: 1.06 male(s)/female (2005)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 56.29 deaths
/
1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 55.69 deaths
/
1,000 live births
female: 56.86 deaths
/
1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total: 64.35 years (2005 est.)
male: 63.57 years
female: 65.16 years
Total fertility rate:
2.78 children born/woman (2005 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
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: dengue fever, malaria, and Japanese encephalitis are high risks in some locations
animal contact disease: rabies (2004)
Nationality:
noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian
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)
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)
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