India Demographics Profile 2007

Population

1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)

Age structure

0-14 years: 31.8% (male 188,208,196/female 171,356,024)
15-64 years: 63.1% (male 366,977,821/female 346,034,565)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 27,258,259/female 30,031,289) (2007 est.)

Median age

total: 24.8 years
male: 24.5 years
female: 25.2 years (2007 est.)

Population growth rate

1.606% (2007 est.)

Birth rate

22.69 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Death rate

6.58 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Net migration rate

-0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Sex ratio

at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.098 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.061 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.908 male(s)/female
total population: 1.064 male(s)/female (2007 est.)

Infant mortality rate

total: 34.61 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 39.42 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 29.23 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

total population: 68.59 years
male: 66.28 years
female: 71.17 years (2007 est.)

Total fertility rate

2.81 children born/woman (2007 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate

0.9% (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS

5.1 million (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths

310,000 (2001 est.)

Major infectious diseases

degree of risk: high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, malaria, and Japanese encephalitis are high risks in some locations
animal contact disease: rabies
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified among birds in this country or surrounding region; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2007)

Nationality

noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian

Ethnic groups

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

Religions

Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)

Languages

English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi 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: 61%
male: 73.4%
female: 47.8% (2001 census)