Population 1,045,845,226 (July 2002 est.)

Age structure
0-14 years: 32.7% (male 175,858,386; female 165,724,901)
15-64 years: 62.6% (male 338,957,463; female 316,063,497)
65 years and over: 4.7% (male 24,975,465; female 24,265,514) (2002 est.)

Population growth rate 1.51% (2002 est.)

Birth rate 23.79 births/1,000 population (2002 est.)

Death rate 8.62 deaths/1,000 population (2002 est.)

Net migration rate -0.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2002 est.)

Sex ratio
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.03 male(s)/female
total population: 1.07 male(s)/female (2002 est.)

Infant mortality rate 61.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
total population: 63.23 years
female: 63.93 years (2002 est.)
male: 62.55 years

Total fertility rate 2.98 children born/woman (2002 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate 0.7% (1999 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS 3.7 million (1999 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths 310,000 (1999 est.)

Nationality
noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian

Ethnic groups Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)

Religions Hindu 81.3%, Muslim 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other groups including Buddhist, Jain, Parsi 2.5% (2000)

Languages English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindu is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language

Literacy
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 52%
male: 65.5%
female: 37.7% (1995 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding India on this page is re-published from the 2002 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of India People 2002 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about India People 2002 should be addressed to the CIA.