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Population:
1,014,003,817 (July 2000 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 34% (male 175,228,164; female 165,190,951)
15-64 years:
62% (male 324,699,562; female 301,821,383)
65 years and over: 4% (male
23,925,371; female 23,138,386) (2000 est.)
Population
growth rate: 1.58% (2000 est.)
Birth
rate: 24.79 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Death rate: 8.88 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Net
migration rate: -0.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.03 male(s)/female
total population: 1.07 male(s)/female
(2000 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 64.9 deaths/1,000 live births
(2000 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 62.5 years
male: 61.89 years
female: 63.13
years (2000 est.)
Total fertility rate: 3.11 children born/woman
(2000 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian
Ethnic
groups: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3%
Religions: Hindu 80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%,
Sikh 2%, Buddhist 0.7%, Jains 0.5%, other 0.4%
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.)
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Winter: October to March.