India-factsheet
| National name: |
Bharat |
| President: |
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (2002) |
| Prime Minister: |
Manmohan Singh (2004) |
| Land area: |
1,147,949 sq mi (2,973,190 sq km); total area: 1,269,346
sq mi (3,287,590 sq km) |
| Population (2006 est.): |
1,095,351,995 (growth rate: 1.4%); birth rate: 22.0/1000;
infant mortality rate: 54.6/1000; life |
| expectancy: |
64.7; density per sq mi: 954 |
| Capital (2003 est.): |
New Delhi, 17,037,900 (metro. area), 10,203,700
(city proper) |
| Monetary unit: |
Rupee |
| Principal languages: |
Hindi (official), English (official), Bengali,
Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi,
Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit,
Sindhi (all recognized by the constitution). Dialects,
1,600+ |
| Ethnicity/race: |
Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other
3% (2000) |
| Religions: |
Hindu 81.3%, Islam 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%,
other (including Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis) 2.5%
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| Literacy rate: |
60% (2003 est.) |
| Economic summary: |
GDP/PPP (2005 est.): $3.699 trillion; per capita
$3,400. |
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