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GeographyLocation: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Pakistan
Area: 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
PeoplePopulation: 936,545,814 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
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 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)
Government
Names:
Type: federal republic Capital: New Delhi Independence: 15 August 1947 (from UK) Constitution: 26 January 1950
EconomyNational 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:
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