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| Population | 1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.) | | | Age structure | 0-14 years: 31.8% (male 188,208,196/female 171,356,024)
15-64 years: 63.1% (male 366,977,821/female 346,034,565)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 27,258,259/female 30,031,289) (2007 est.) | | | Median age | total: 24.8 years
male: 24.5 years
female: 25.2 years (2007 est.) | | | Population growth rate | 1.606% (2007 est.) | | | Birth rate | 22.69 births/1,000 population (2007 est.) | | | Death rate | 6.58 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.) | | | Net migration rate | -0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.) | | | Sex ratio | at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.098 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.061 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.908 male(s)/female
total population: 1.064 male(s)/female (2007 est.) | | | Infant mortality rate | total: 34.61 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 39.42 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 29.23 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.) | | | Life expectancy at birth | total population: 68.59 years
male: 66.28 years
female: 71.17 years (2007 est.) | | | Total fertility rate | 2.81 children born/woman (2007 est.) | | People living
with HIV/AIDS | 5.1 million (2001 est.) | | | HIV/AIDS - deaths | 310,000 (2001 est.) | | | 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 census) | | | 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: 61%
male: 73.4%
female: 47.8% (2001 census) | |
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