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People
1,173,108,018 (July 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 
2
0-14 years: 30.5% (male 187,197,389/female 165,285,592)
15-64 years: 64.3% (male 384,131,994/female 359,795,835)
65 years and over: 5.2% (male 28,816,115/female 31,670,841) (2010 est.)
total: 25.9 years
male: 25.4 years
female: 26.6 years (2010 est.)
1.376% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 89
21.34 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 85
7.53 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 115
-0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 123
urban population: 29% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 2.4% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.13 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female
total population: 1.08 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
total: 49.13 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 53
male: 47.7 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 50.73 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
total population: 66.46 years
country comparison to the world: 159
male: 65.46 years
female: 67.57 years (2010 est.)
2.65 children born/woman (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 81
0.3% (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 89
2.4 million (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 4
310,000 (2001 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
degree of risk: high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: chikungunya, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria
animal contact disease: rabies
water contact disease: leptospirosis
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)
noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian
Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the most widely spoken language and primary tongue of 41% 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 (2001 census)
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 61%
male: 73.4%
female: 47.8% (2001 census)
total: 10 years
male: 11 years
female: 10 years (2007)
3.2% of GDP (2006)
country comparison to the world: 142
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