NLAID - Activity in India

Information on India

Birth rate 20.97 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 43.5% (2006) country comparison to the world: 1

Climate varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north

Death rate 7.48 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and growing population is overstraining natural resources

Infant mortality rate
total 47.57 deaths/1,000 live births
male 46.18 deaths/1,000 live births
female 49.14 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Hindi 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)

Life expectancy at birth
total population 66.8 years
male 65.77 years
female 67.95 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 61%
male 73.4%
female 47.8% (2001 census)

Maternal mortality rate 230 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 56

Natural resources coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, rare earth elements, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land

Population
1,189,172,906 (July 2011 est.)

Population growth rate 1.344% (2011 est.)

Religions Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 10 years
male 11 years
female 10 years (2007)