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  | | Country (long form) Republic of India | | Capital New Delhi | Total Area 1,269,345.60 sq mi
3,287,590.00 sq km
| Population 1,014,003,817 (July 2000 est.) | Estimated Population in 2050
1,619,582,271 | | Languages English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication, Hindi the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people, Bengali (official), Telugu (official), Marathi (official), Tamil (official), Urdu (official), Gujarati (official), Malayalam (official), Kannada (official), Oriya (official), Punjabi (official), Assamese (official), Kashmiri (official), Sindhi (official), Sanskrit (official), Hindustani (a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India) note: 24 languages each spoken by a million or more persons; numerous other languages and dialects, for the most part mutually unintelligible | Literacy 52.0% total, 65.5% male, 37.7% female (1995 est.) | Religions Hindu 80%, Muslim 14%, Christian 2.4%, Sikh 2%, Buddhist 0.7%, Jains 0.5%, other 0.4% | Life Expectancy 61.89 male, 63.13 female (2000 est.) | | Government Type federal republic | Currency 1 Indian rupee (Re) = 100 paise | | GDP (per capita) $1,800 (1999 est.) | Labor Force (by occupation)
agriculture 67%, services 18%, industry 15% (1995 est.) | Industry textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machines | Agriculture rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish | | Arable Land 56% | Exports textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures | Imports crude oil and petroleum products, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals | Natural Resources coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land | | Telephones (main lines in use) 18.95 million (1999) | Telephones (mobile cellular) 1.9 million (April 1998) | Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
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