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Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Pakistan
Area:
total area:
land area:
comparative area:
slightly more than one-third the size of the US
Land boundaries: total 14,103 km, Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605 km, Burma 1,463 km,China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km
Coastline: 7,000 km
Population: 936,545,814 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
35% (female 159,921,309; male 168,812,255)
15-64 years:
61% (female 274,105,407; male 296,145,798)
65 years and over:
4% (female 18,870,762; male 18,690,283)
Population growth rate: 1.77% (1995 est.)
Birth rate: 27.78 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 10.07 deaths/1,000 population
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: 76.3 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
59.04 years
male:
58.5 years
female:
59.61 years
Total fertility rate: 3.4 children born/woman
Ethnic divisions: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3%
Religions: Hindu 80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist 0.7%, Jains0.5%, other 0.4%
Languages: English enjoys associate status but is the most important languagefor 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 Hindu/Urd u, is spokenwidely throughout northern India
Literacy:
age 7 and over can read and write (1991)
total population:
52%
male:
64%
female:
39%
Names:
conventional long form:
Republic of India
conventional short form:
India
Type: federal republic
Capital: New Delhi
Independence: 15 August 1947 (from UK)
Constitution: 26 January 1950
National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.2539 trillion
National product real growth rate: 5%
National product per capita: $1,360
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10%
Unemployment rate:
Electricity:
capacity:
81,200,000 kW
production:
314 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
324 kWh
