ACOG - India  - IBM

Geography

Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Pakistan

Area:
total area:
land area:
comparative area: slightly more than one-third the size of the US

Land boundaries: total 14,103 km, Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605 km, Burma 1,463 km,China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km

Coastline: 7,000 km


People

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

Age structure:
0-14 years: 35% (female 159,921,309; male 168,812,255)
15-64 years: 61% (female 274,105,407; male 296,145,798)
65 years and over: 4% (female 18,870,762; male 18,690,283)

Population growth rate: 1.77% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 27.78 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.07 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 76.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 59.04 years
male: 58.5 years
female: 59.61 years

Total fertility rate: 3.4 children born/woman

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

Religions: Hindu 80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist 0.7%, Jains0.5%, other 0.4%

Languages: English enjoys associate status but is the most important languagefor 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 Hindu/Urdu, is spokenwidely throughout northern India

Literacy: age 7 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 52%
male: 64%
female: 39%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of India
conventional short form: India

Type: federal republic

Capital: New Delhi

Independence: 15 August 1947 (from UK)

Constitution: 26 January 1950


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.2539 trillion

National product real growth rate: 5%

National product per capita: $1,360

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 81,200,000 kW
production: 314 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 324 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.