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The People of India Population: 1,296,834,042 Ethnic Groups: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Mongoloid 0–14 years: 26.98% (349,930,959) 15–24 years: 17.79% (230,647,630) 25–54 years: 41% (534,847,416) 55–64 years: 7.6% (98,502,520) 65 years and over: 6.3% (88,382,517)

Age Structure:

Population Growth Rate: 1.14% Death Rate: 7.3 deaths/1,000 pop. Migration Rate: 0 migrants/1,000 pop. Infant Mortality Rate:

37.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life Expectancy at Birth:

total population: 69.1 years male: 67.8 years female: 70.5 years

Total Fertility Rate:

2.4 children born/woman

Religions:

Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh

Languages:

Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Maithili

Literacy Rate: 71.2

Source: www.cia.gov 2018

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