India People - 2022
SOURCE: 2022 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK
Population
1,389,637,446 (2022 est.)
Nationality
noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian
Ethnic groups
Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, and other 3% (2000)
Languages
Hindi 43.6%, Bengali 8%, Marathi 6.9%, Telugu 6.7%, Tamil 5.7%, Gujarati 4.6%, Urdu 4.2%, Kannada 3.6%, Odia 3.1%, Malayalam 2.9%, Punjabi 2.7%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.1%, other 5.6%; note - English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; there are 22 other officially recognized languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language (2011 est.)
major-language sample(s):
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Religions
Hindu 79.8%, Muslim 14.2%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.7%, other and unspecified 2% (2011 est.)
Age structure
0-14 years: 26.31% (male 185,017,089/female 163,844,572)
15-24 years: 17.51% (male 123,423,531/female 108,739,780)
25-54 years: 41.56% (male 285,275,667/female 265,842,319)
55-64 years: 7.91% (male 52,444,817/female 52,447,038)
65 years and over: 6.72% (male 42,054,459/female 47,003,975) (2020 est.)
Dependency ratios
total dependency ratio: 48.1
youth dependency ratio: 38.1
elderly dependency ratio: 10.1
potential support ratio: 9.9 (2021 est.)
Median age
total: 28.7 years
male: 28 years
female: 29.5 years (2020 est.)
Population growth rate
0.67% (2022 est.)
Birth rate
16.82 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Death rate
10.3 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Net migration rate
0.16 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Population distribution
with the notable exception of the deserts in the northwest, including the Thar Desert, and the mountain fringe in the north, a very high population density exists throughout most of the country; the core of the population is in the north along the banks of the Ganges, with other river valleys and southern coastal areas also having large population concentrations
Urbanization
urban population: 36.4% of total population (2023)
rate of urbanization: 2.33% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
Major urban areas - population
32.066 million NEW DELHI (capital), 20.961 million Mumbai, 15.134 million Kolkata, 13.193 million Bangalore, 11.503 million Chennai, 10.534 million Hyderabad (2022)
Sex ratio
at birth: 1.1 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.11 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.12 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female
total population: 1.06 male(s)/female (2022 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth
21.2 years (2019/21)
note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49
Maternal mortality ratio
145 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)
Infant mortality rate
total: 30.31 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 29.95 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 30.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2022 est.)
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 67.22 years
male: 65.46 years
female: 69.16 years (2022 est.)
Total fertility rate
2.1 children born/woman (2022 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rate
66.7% (2019/20)
Drinking water source
improved: urban: 96.9% of population
rural: 94.7% of population
total: 95.5% of population
unimproved: urban: 3.1% of population
rural: 5.3% of population
total: 4.5% of population (2020 est.)
Current health expenditure
3% of GDP (2019)
Physicians density
0.74 physicians/1,000 population (2020)
Hospital bed density
0.5 beds/1,000 population (2017)
Sanitation facility access
improved: urban: 98.6% of population
rural: 75.2% of population
total: 83.4% of population
unimproved: urban: 1.4% of population
rural: 24.8% of population
total: 16.6% of population (2020 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
0.2% (2021 est.)
Major infectious diseases
degree of risk: very high (2020)
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria
water contact diseases: leptospirosis
animal contact diseases: rabies
note: clusters of cases of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are being reported across 27 States and Union Territories in India; as of 9 December 2022, India has reported a total of 44,674,439 cases of COVID-19 or 3,237.27 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with a total of 530,653 cumulative deaths or a rate 38.45 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 8 December 2022, 72.48% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Obesity - adult prevalence rate
3.9% (2016)
Alcohol consumption per capita
total: 3.09 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
beer: 0.23 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
wine: 0 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
spirits: 2.85 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
other alcohols: 0 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Tobacco use
total: 27.2% (2020 est.)
male: 41.3% (2020 est.)
female: 13% (2020 est.)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight
33.4% (2016/18)
Child marriage
women married by age 15: 6.8%
women married by age 18: 27.3%
men married by age 18: 4.2% (2016 est.)
Education expenditures
4.5% of GDP (2020 est.)
Literacy
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 74.4%
male: 82.4%
female: 65.8% (2018)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total: 12 years
male: 12 years
female: 12 years (2020)
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)
total: 19.8%
male: 19.5%
female: 21% (2020 est.)
NOTE: The information regarding India on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of India 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about India 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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