• (Source: http://emerald-empire.com/geography/india/stats/page00.htm#SEC2)

Location: Southern Asia, between Pakistan and Bangledesh

Population: 936,545,814 (July 1995 est.)

Total Fertility Rate: 3.4 children born/woman

Population Growth Rate: 1.77%

Birth Rate: 27.78 births/1000 population

Death Rate: 10.07 deaths/1000 population

Infant Mortality Rate: 76.3 deaths/1000 live births

Life Expectancy at Birth:

• total population: 59.04 years
• male: 58.5 years
• female: 59.61 years

Ethnic Divisions:

• 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%

Literacy: age 7 and over can read and write

• total population: 52%
• male: 64%
• female: 39%

Labor Force: 314.751 million (1990)

• occupation - agriculture: 65% (1993 est.)

Principle Crops: rice, wheat, oilseeds, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes

Grain Consumption per person (kgs):

• India: 186
• China: 292
• USA: 860
• Canada: 974
• (Source:State of the World, 1994)

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