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- <text id=93CT0648>
- <title>
- India--People
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- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: India
- People</hdr><body>
- <p>Population: 903,158,968 (July 1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Population growth rate: 1.86% (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Birth rate: 29.11 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Death rate: 10.52 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Infant mortality rate: 80.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
- <l> total population: 58.12 years</l>
- <l> male: 57.69 years</l>
- <l> female: 58.59 years (1993 est.)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Total fertility rate: 3.57 children born/woman (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Nationality:</l>
- <l> noun: Indian(s)</l>
- <l> adjective: Indian</l>
- </list>
- <p>Ethnic divisions: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and
- other 3%
- </p>
- <p>Religions: Hindu 82.6%, Muslim 11.4%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%,
- Buddhist 0.7%, Jains 0.5%, other 0.4%
- </p>
- <p>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
- </p>
- <p>note: 24 languages each spoken by a million or more persons;
- numerous other languages and dialects, for the most part mutually
- unintelligible
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
- <l> total population: 48%</l>
- <l> male: 62%</l>
- <l> female: 34%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Labor force: 284.4 million
- </p>
- <p> by occupation: agriculture 67% (FY85)
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