India--People

CIA FactbookThe World Factbook 1993: India People

Population: 903,158,968 (July 1993 est.)

Population growth rate: 1.86% (1993 est.)

Birth rate: 29.11 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Death rate: 10.52 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 80.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 58.12 years male: 57.69 years female: 58.59 years (1993 est.)

Total fertility rate: 3.57 children born/woman (1993 est.)

Nationality: noun: Indian(s) adjective: Indian

Ethnic divisions: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3%

Religions: Hindu 82.6%, Muslim 11.4%, 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 15 and over can read and write (1990) total population: 48% male: 62% female: 34%

Labor force: 284.4 million

by occupation: agriculture 67% (FY85)