India: Facts

I just picked up some data from wiki...some interesting facts:

35% are below 15 (unproductive)
rate of growth is 2.2 percent
Fertility: 2.76 children per couple (which means decrease should be 0.76 to stop on overall increase)

Population:
1,147,995,904 (2008 est)

Growth rate:
1.578% (2008 est)

Birth rate:
22.22 births/1,000 population (2008 est)

Death rate:
6.4 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est)

Life expectancy:

69.25 years (2008 est)
–male:

66.87 years (2008 est)
–female:

71.9 years (2008 est)

Fertility rate:
2.76 children born/woman (NFHS-3, 2008)

Age structure:

0-14 years:
31.5% (male 189,238,487/female 172,168,306)(2008 est)

15-64 years:
63.3% (male 374,157,581/female 352,868,003) (2008 est)

65-over:
5.2% (male 28,285,796/female 31,277,725) (2008 est)

Sex ratio:

At birth:
1.12 male(s)/female (2008)

Under 15:
1.10 male(s)/female (2008)......more males dying (nature takes on abortions!)

15-64 years:
1.06 male(s)/female (2008)...........more males dying


India occupies 2.4% of the world's land area and supports over 17.5% of the world's population.

India has more arable land area than any country except the United States, and more water area than any country except Canada and the United States. Indian life, therefore revolves mostly around agriculture and allied activities in small villages, where the overwhelming majority of Indians live.

As per the 2001 census, 72.2% of the population lives in about 638,000 villages and the remaining 27.8% lives in over 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomeration.