-Swami Vivekananda
| People | Government | Economy | Communication | Transportation |
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| People | |
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| Population: | 1,027,015,247 (1st March 2001) |
| Population growth rate: | 1.72% (1997 est.) |
| Birth rate: | 26.19 births/1,000 population (1997 est.) |
| Death rate: | 8.87 deaths/1,000 population (1997 est.) |
| Sex ratio: | total population:1.05 male(s)/female |
| Infant mortality rate: | 65.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1997 est.) |
| Total fertility rate: | 3.29 children born/woman (1997 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth: | total
population: 62.41 years male :61.68 years female:63.18 years (1997 est.) |
| Literacy: | definition:
age 15 and over can read and write total population:52% male:65.5% female:37.7% (1995 est.) |
| Religions: | Hindu 80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist 0.7%, Jains 0.5%, other 0.4% |
| Nationality: | noun:
Indian(s) adjective:Indian |
| Languages: | English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for 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 spoken widely throughout northern India note : 24 languages each spoken by a million or more persons; numerous other languages and dialects, for the most part mutually unintelligible |
| Government | |
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| Country name: | conventional
long form :Republic of India conventional short form:India |
| Data code: | IN |
| Government type: | federal republic |
| National capital: | New Delhi |
| Independence: | 15 August 1947 (from UK) |
| National holiday: | Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic, 26 January (1950) |
| Legal system: | based on English common law; limited judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations |
| Suffrage: | 18 years of age; universal |
| Judicial branch: | Supreme Court, judges are appointed by the president |
| Flag description: | three equal horizontal bands of orange (top), white, and green with a blue chakra (24-spoked wheel) centered in the white band; similar to the flag of Niger, which has a small orange disk centered in the white band |
| Economy | |
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| GDP: | purchasing power parity - $1.538 trillion (1996 est.) |
| GDP - real growth rate: | 6.5% (1996 est.) |
| GDP - per capita: | purchasing power parity - $1,600 (1996 est.) |
| GDP - composition by sector: | agriculture
:30% industry:28% services:42% (1993/94) |
| Inflation rate - consumer price index: | 10.3% (1995) |
| Labor force: | total:
370 million (1995 est.) by occupation:agriculture 65% or more, services 4%, manufacturing and construction 3%, communications and transport 3% |
| Unemployment rate: | NA% |
| Budget: | revenues:
$34 billion expenditures:$52.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY95/96) |
| Industries: | textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery |
| Industrial production growth rate: | 11.2% (1996) |
| Agriculture - products: | rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish catch of about 3 million metric tons ranks India among the world's top 10 fishing nations |
| Exports: | total
value:$30.5 billion (f.o.b., 1995) commodities:clothing, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures, cotton yarn, and fabric partners :US, Japan, Germany, UK, Hong Kong |
| Imports: | total
value:$34.5 billion (c.i.f., 1995) commodities:crude oil and petroleum products, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals partners:US, Germany, Saudi Arabia, UK, Belgium, Japan |
| Debt - external: | $97.9 billion (March 1995) |
| Currency: | 1 Indian rupee (Re) = 100 paise |
| Communications | |
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| Telephones: | 12 million (1996) |
| Radio broadcast stations: | AM 96, FM 4, shortwave 0 |
| Television broadcast stations: | 274 (government controlled) |
| Televisions: | 33 million (1992 est.) |
| Transportation | |
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| Railways: | total: 62,462 km (11,793 km electrified; 12,617 km double track) |
| Highways: | total: 2,009,600 km |
| Waterways: | 16,180 km; 3,631 km navigable by large vessels |
| Pipelines: | crude oil 3,005 km; petroleum products 2,687 km; natural gas 1,700 km (1995) |
| Ports and harbors: | Calcutta, Chennai (Madras), Cochin, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Mumbai (Bombay), Vishakhapatnam |
| Transnational Issues | |
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| Disputes - international: | boundaries with Bangladesh and China in dispute; status of Kashmir with Pakistan; water-sharing problems with downstream riparian Pakistan over the Indus (Wular Barrage); Bangladesh and India signed a treaty 12 December 1996 to share water from the Ganges |
| Illicit drugs: | world's largest licit producer of opium for the pharmaceutical trade, but an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets; major transit country for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries; illicit producer of hashish and methaqualone; produced 47 metric tons of illicit opium in 1996 |
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