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![]() ![]() India People 1999
Population: 1,000,848,550 (July 1999 est.)
Age structure:
Population growth rate: 1.68% (1999 est.) Birth rate: 25.39 births/1,000 population (1999 est.) Death rate: 8.5 deaths/1,000 population (1999 est.) Net migration rate: -0.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1999 est.)
Sex ratio:
Infant mortality rate: 60.81 deaths/1,000 live births (1999 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: 3.18 children born/woman (1999 est.)
Nationality:
Ethnic groups: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% Religions: Hindu 80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist 0.7%, Jains 0.5%, other 0.4%
Languages:
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)
Literacy:
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