Indian population

Current Population Of India	1,065,070,607 (July 2007 est.)
Population Density of India	324 persons per square kilometre
Age structure
0 to 14 years	31.7% (male 173,869,856; female 164,003,915)
15 to 64 years	63.5% (male 349,785,804; female 326,289,402)
65 years and over	4.8% (male 25,885,725; female 25,235,905) (2004 estimate)
Median age
Total	24.4 years
Male	24.4 years
female	24.4 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate	1.44% (2004 est.)
Birth rate	22.8 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate	8.38 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate	-0.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Infant mortality rate
Total	57.92 deaths/1,000 live births
Female	57.29 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.)
Male	58.52 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth
Total population	63.99 years
Male	63.25 years
Female	64.77 years (2004 est.)
Total fertility rate	2.85 children born/woman (2004 est.)
HIV / AIDS
Adult prevalence rate	0.8% (2001 est.)
People living with HIV / AIDS	3.97 million (2001 est.)
Deaths because of HIV / AIDS	310,000 (2001 est.)
Nationality
Noun	Indian(s)
Adjective	Indian
Ethnic groups
Indo-Aryan	72%
Dravidian	25%
Mongoloid and other's	3% (2000)
Religions
Hindu	81.3%
Muslim	12%
Christian	2.3%
Sikh	1.9%
Other groups including Buddhist, Jain, Parsi	2.5% (2000)
Languages	English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the official language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language.
Literacy Rate (Definition: Age 15 and over that can read and write)
Total Population	59.5%
Male	70.2%
Female	48.3% (2003 est.)