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India Population: 1,065,070,607 (July 2004 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 31.7% 31.7% (male 173,869,856; female 164,003,915) 15-64 years: 61% 63.5% (male 349,785,804; female 326,289,402) 65 years and over: 4.8% (male 25,885,725; female 25,235,905) (2004 est.) Population growth rate: 1.44% (2004 est.) Birth rate:22.8 births/1,000 population (2004 est.) Death rate: 8.38 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.) Net migration rate: -0.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 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 (2004 est.) Infant mortality rate: 63.14 deaths/1 000 live births (1998 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 63.99 years male: 63.25 years female: 64.77 years (2004 est.) Total fertility rate: 3.24 children born/woman (1998 est.) Nationality: noun: Indian(s) adjective: Indian Ethnic groups: Indo-Aryan 72% Dravidian 25% Mongoloid and other 3% Religions: Hindu 80% Muslim 14% 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: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 59.5% male: 70.2% female: 48.3% (2003 est.)
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