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Geography : INDIA
 
Location :
 
Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan
 
Geographic coordinates:
 
20 00 N, 77 00 E
 
Map references:
 
Asia
 
Area:
 
total: 3,287,263 sq km
land: 2,973,193 sq km
water: 314,070 sq km
 
Land boundaries:
 
total: 13,888 km
border countries (6): Bangladesh 4142 km, Bhutan 659 km, Burma 1468 km, China 2659 km, Nepal 1770 km, Pakistan 3190 km
 
Coastline:
 
7,000 km
 
Maritime claims:
 
territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
 
Climate:
 
varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
 
Terrain:
 
upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
 
Elevation:
 
mean elevation: 160 m
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
highest point: Kanchenjunga 8,586 m
 
Natural resources:
 
coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), antimony, iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, rare earth elements, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land
 
Land use:
 
agricultural land: 60.5% (2011 est.)
arable land: 52.8% (2011 est.) / permanent crops: 4.2% (2011 est.) / permanent pasture: 3.5% (2011 est.)
forest: 23.1% (2011 est.)
other: 16.4% (2011 est.)
 
Irrigated land:
 
667,000 sq km (2012)
 
Population distribution:
 
with the notable exception of the deserts in the northwest, including the Thar Desert, and the mountain fringe in the north, a very high population density exists throughout most of the country; the core of the population is in the north along the banks of the Ganges, with other river valleys and southern coastal areas also having large population concentrations
 
Natural hazards:
 
droughts; flash floods, as well as widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes
volcanism: Barren Island (354 m) in the Andaman Sea has been active in recent years
 
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; preservation and quality of forests; biodiversity loss
 
Environment - international agreements:
 
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
 
Geography - note:
 
dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian Ocean trade routes; Kanchenjunga, third tallest mountain in the world, lies on the border with Nepal
 
 
People and Society : INDIA
 
Population:
 
1,296,834,042 (July 2018 est.)
 
Nationality:
 
noun: Indian(s)
adjective: Indian
 
Ethnic groups:
 
Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)
 
Languages:
 

Hindi 43.6%, Bengali 8%, Marathi 6.9%, Telugu 6.7%, Tamil 5.7%, Gujarati 4.6%, Urdu 4.2%, Kannada 3.6%, Odia 3.1%, Malayalam 2.9%, Punjabi 2.7%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.1%, other 5.6% (2011 est.)

note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; there are 22 other officially recognized languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language

 
Religions:
 
Hindu 79.8%, Muslim 14.2%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.7%, other and unspecified 2% (2011 est.)
 
Age structure:
 
  • 0-14 years: 26.98% (male 185,736,879 /female 164,194,080)
  • 15-24 years: 17.79% (male 122,573,662 /female 108,109,968)
  • 25-54 years: 41.24% (male 276,283,581 /female 258,563,835)
  • 55-64 years: 7.6% (male 49,334,703 /female 49,197,817)
  • 65 years and over: 6.39% (male 39,184,523 /female 43,654,994) (2018 est.)
 
Dependency ratios:
 
  • total dependency ratio: 52.2 (2015 est.)
  • youth dependency ratio: 43.6 (2015 est.)
  • elderly dependency ratio: 8.6 (2015 est.)
  • potential support ratio: 11.7 (2015 est.)
 
Median age:
 
  • total: 28.1 years
  • male: 27.5 years
  • female: 28.9 years (2018 est.)
 
Population growth rate:
 
1.14% (2018 est.)
 
Birth rate:
 
18.7 births/1,000 population (2018 est.)
 
Death rate:
 
7.3 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.)
 
Net migration rate:
 
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.)
 
Population distribution:
 
with the notable exception of the deserts in the northwest, including the Thar Desert, and the mountain fringe in the north, a very high population density exists throughout most of the country; the core of the population is in the north along the banks of the Ganges, with other river valleys and southern coastal areas also having large population concentrations
 
Urbanization:
 
urban population: 34% of total population (2018)
rate of urbanization: 2.37% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)
 
Major urban areas - population:
 
28.514 million NEW DELHI (capital), 19.98 million Mumbai, 14.681 million Kolkata, 11.44 million Bangalore, 10.456 million Chennai, 9.482 million Hyderabad (2018)
 
Sex ratio:
 
  • at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  • 0-14 years: 1.13 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  • 15-24 years: 1.13 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  • 25-54 years: 1.06 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  • 55-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  • 65 years and over: 0.9 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
  • total population: 1.08 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
 
Maternal mortality rate:
 
174 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
 
Infant mortality rate:
 
  • total: 37.8 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)
  • male: 36.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)
  • female: 39.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)
 
Life expectancy at birth:
 
  • total population: 69.1 years (2018 est.)
  • male: 67.8 years (2018 est.)
  • female: 70.5 years (2018 est.)
 
Total fertility rate:
 
2.4 children born/woman (2018 est.
 
 
More to come: Under development
 
 

 

 

 
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