People Of India:

People

• Population:   1210 Million (March 2011 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
• 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 

• 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; 
• Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language 
• there are 14 other official languages: 
• Bengali, 
• Telugu, 
• Marathi, 
• Tamil, 
• Urdu, 
• Gujarati, 
• Malayalam, 
• Kannada, 
• Oriya, 
• Punjabi, 
• Assamese, 
• Kashmiri, 
• Sindhi, 
• Sanskrit; 
• Literacy:  definition: age 15 and over can read and write
• total population: 52%
• male: 65.5%
• female: 40.7% (2000 est.)