India 
Facts
Population:
1,029,991,145 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
33.12% (male 175,630,537; female 165,540,672)
15-64 years:
62.2% (male 331,790,850; female 308,902,864)
65 years and over:
4.68% (male 24,439,022; female 23,687,200) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.55% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
24.28 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
8.74 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 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 (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
63.19 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
62.86 years
male:
62.22 years
female:
63.53 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
3.04 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.7% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
3.7 million (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
310,000 (1999 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 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
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
52%
male:
65.5%
female:
37.7% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $2.2 trillion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
6% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $2,200 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
25%
industry:
24%
services:
51% (2000)
Population below poverty line:
35% (1994 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.5%
highest 10%:
33.5% (1997)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.4% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
NA
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 67%, services 18%, industry 15% (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$44.3 billion
expenditures:
$73.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY00/01 est.)
Industries:
textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software
Industrial production growth rate:
7.5% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
454.561 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
79.41%
hydro:
17.77%
nuclear:
2.52%
other:
0.3% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
424.032 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
200 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
1.49 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish
Exports:
$43.1 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures
Exports - partners:
US 22%, UK 6%, Germany 5%, Japan 5%, Hong Kong 5%, UAE 4% (1999)
Imports:
$60.8 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals
Imports - partners:
US 9%, Benelux 8%, UK 6%, Saudi Arabia 6%, Japan 6%, Germany 5% (1999)
Debt - external:
$99.6 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
$2.9 billion (FY98/99)
Currency:
Indian rupee (INR)
Currency code:
INR
Exchange rates:
Indian rupees per US dollar - 46.540 (January 2001), 44.942 (2000), 43.055 (1999), 41.259 (1998), 36.313 (1997), 35.433 (1996)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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http://www.assamtribune.com
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http://www.bartamanpatrika.com/
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http://www.bombaysamachar.com/
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