1,014,003,817 (July 2000 est.)

0-14 years: 34% (male 175,228,164; female 165,190,951)
15-64 years: 62% (male 324,699,562; female 301,821,383)
65 years and over: 4% (male 23,925,371; female 23,138,386) (2000 est.)

1.58% (2000 est.)

24.79 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)

8.88 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)

-0.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)

at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.03 male(s)/female
total population: 1.07 male(s)/female (2000 est.)

64.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)

total population: 62.5 years
male: 61.89 years
female: 63.13 years (2000 est.)

3.11 children born/woman (2000 est.)

noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian

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

Hindu 80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist
0.7%, Jains 0.5%, other 0.4%

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 Hindi/Urdu 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

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 52%
male: 65.5%
female: 37.7% (1995 est.)