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India Demographics Profile 2013
Home > Factbook > Countries > India Population | 1,205,073,612 (July 2012 est.) | Age structure | 0-14 years: 29.3% (male 187,386,162/female 165,345,284)
15-24 years: 18.2% (male 116,019,042/female 103,660,359)
25-54 years: 40.2% (male 249,017,538/female 235,042,251)
55-64 years: 6.8% (male 41,035,270/female 40,449,880)
65 years and over: 5.6% (male 31,892,823/female 35,225,003) (2012 est.) | Median age | total: 26.5 years male: 25.9 years female: 27.2 years (2012 est.) | Population growth rate | 1.312% (2012 est.) | Birth rate | 20.6 births/1,000 population (2012 est.) | Death rate | 7.43 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.) | Net migration rate | -0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.) | Urbanization | urban population: 30% of total population (2010) rate of urbanization: 2.4% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) | Major cities - population | NEW DELHI (capital) 21.72 million; Mumbai 19.695 million; Kolkata 15.294 million; Chennai 7.416 million; Bangalore 7.079 million (2009) | Sex ratio | 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: 0.9 male(s)/female total population: 1.08 male(s)/female (2011 est.) | Infant mortality rate | total: 46.07 deaths/1,000 live births male: 44.71 deaths/1,000 live births female: 47.59 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.) | Life expectancy at birth | total population: 67.14 years male: 66.08 years female: 68.33 years (2012 est.) | Total fertility rate | 2.58 children born/woman (2012 est.) | HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | 0.3% (2009 est.) | HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | 2.4 million (2009 est.) | HIV/AIDS - deaths | 170,000 (2009 est.) | Sanitation facility access | improved: urban: 54% of population rural: 21% of population total: 31% of population unimproved: urban: 46% of population rural: 79% of population total: 69% of population | Major infectious diseases | 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) | 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 | 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) | Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 61% male: 73.4% female: 47.8% (2001 census) | School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) | total: 10 years male: 11 years female: 10 years (2007) | Education expenditures | 3.1% of GDP (2006) | Maternal mortality rate | 200 deaths/100,000 live births (2010) | Children under the age of 5 years underweight | 43.5% (2006) | Health expenditures | 2.4% of GDP (2009) | Physicians density | 0.599 physicians/1,000 population (2005) | Hospital bed density | 0.9 beds/1,000 population (2005) | |