Sunday, October 18, 2015

Demographics of India


India is second most populated country in the world with more than 1 billion people (as on 2015). Population growth rate is 1.2%, ranking 94th in world in 2013. In 1998, India reached the billion mark.

>50% population is below age of 25
>65% below age of 35

Expected in 2020, average age of an Indian would be 29 years

India has many religious groups, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism and others..


Linguistic:
About 41% of Indians speak Hindi, with more than 27 languages present like Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and so on...

Cities:
Mumbai is largest city in India with a population of more than 1 crore. Delhi being second and Bengaluru (Bangalore) third followed by Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata and so on...



Courtesy: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India;
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW;
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/

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