Sunday, February 2, 2014

India Demographics



The demographics  of India is briefly given below

Population1,220,800,359 (July 2013 est.)
Age structure0-14 years: 28.9% (male 187,236,677/female 165,219,615)
15-24 years: 18.2% (male 117,385,009/female 104,516,448)
25-54 years: 40.4% (male 253,642,261/female 239,219,931)
55-64 years: 6.9% (male 42,307,170/female 41,785,413)
65 years and over: 5.7% (male 32,992,850/female 36,494,985) (2013 est.)
Dependency ratiostotal dependency ratio: 52.4 %
youth dependency ratio: 44.3 %
elderly dependency ratio: 8 %
potential support ratio: 12.4 (2013)
Median agetotal: 26.7 years
male: 26.1 years
female: 27.4 years (2013 est.)
Population growth rate1.28% (2013 est.)
Birth rate20.24 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Death rate7.39 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Net migration rate-0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
Urbanizationurban population: 31.3% of total population (2011)
rate of urbanization: 2.47% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major cities - populationNEW DELHI (capital) 21.72 million; Mumbai 19.695 million; Kolkata 15.294 million; Chennai 7.416 million; Bangalore 7.079 million (2009)
Sex ratioat birth: 1.12 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.13 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.12 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female
total population: 1.08 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth19.9 (2006 est.)
Infant mortality ratetotal: 44.6 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 43.28 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 46.08 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
Life expectancy at birthtotal population: 67.48 years
male: 66.38 years
female: 68.7 years (2013 est.)
Total fertility rate2.55 children born/woman (2013 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rate54.8% (2007/08)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate0.3% (2009 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS2.4 million (2009 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths170,000 (2009 est.)
Drinking water sourceimproved: 
urban: 97% of population
rural: 90% of population
total: 92% of population
unimproved:
urban: 3% of population
rural: 10% of population
total: 8% of population (2010 est.)
Sanitation facility accessimproved: 
urban: 58% of population
rural: 23% of population
total: 34% of population
unimproved:
urban: 42% of population
rural: 77% of population
total: 66% of population (2010 est.)
Major infectious diseasesdegree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria
water contact disease: leptospirosis
animal contact disease: rabies
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2013)
Nationalitynoun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian
Ethnic groupsIndo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
ReligionsHindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
LanguagesHindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the most widely spoken language and primary tongue of 41% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language (2001 census)
Literacydefinition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 62.8%
male: 75.2%
female: 50.8% (2006 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)total: 11 years
male: 11 years
female: 10 years (2010)
Child labor - children ages 5-14total number: 26,965,074
percentage: 12 % (2006 est.)
Education expenditures3.3% of GDP (2010)
Maternal mortality rate200 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight43.5% (2006)
Health expenditures3.9% of GDP (2011)
Physicians density0.65 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
Hospital bed density0.9 beds/1,000 population (2005)
Obesity - adult prevalence rate1.9% (2008)



                                      




Unemployment Figures in India :
1. India has 40 Million Unemployed people
2. Current unemployment rate is 9.4%
3. Unemployment rate is 10.3% in rural and 7.3% in urban areas
4. Agriculture is the predominant occupation employing more than 50% of the population. Service sector            accounts for more than 25% while industrial sector employs more than 10%
5. Per capita income is touching Rs 54,835 per annum in 2010-11
6. Towns and cities make more than two thirds of the Indian GDP, even though less than a third of the        population live in them.
7. In 2010, Indian emigrants are estimated to be sending home remittances totaling $55 billion, the most of    any country, constituting about 4.5% of GDP.
8. Various sectors falling under the India GDP includes food processing, transportation equipment,      petroleum, textiles, software, agriculture, mining, machinery,chemicals, steel, cement & many others
9. The share of services in India's GDP is 58.5% in 2011. The share of agriculture and industry are 13.5%      and 28% respectively.







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