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<text id=93CT0648>
<title>
India--People
</title>
<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)
</p></body></article></text>