Population: 919,903,056 (July 1994 est.)

Population growth rate: 1.82% (1994 est.)

Birth rate: 28.45 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Death rate: 10.29 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 78.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 58.58 years
male: 58.09 years
female: 59.09 years (1994 est.)

Total fertility rate: 3.48 children born/woman (1994 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian

Ethnic divisions: 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 Hindu/Urdu, is 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: age 7 and over can read and write (1991 est.)
total population: 52.11%
male: 63.86%
female: 39.42%
Labor force: 314.751 million (1990)
by occupation: agriculture 65% (1993 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding India on this page is re-published from the 1995 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of India People 1995 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about India People 1995 should be addressed to the CIA.