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EXPORTS (2015)

IMPORTS (2015)

BASIC INDICATORS (2015)

DATA FOR

$303.7 billion Chemicals, Clothing, Coffee, Engineering goods, Fish pro- ducts, Gems, Jewellery, Leather manufactures, Tea, Textiles.

$28.2 billion Capital goods, Chemicals, Edible oils, Fertilisers, Gems, Iron ore, Jewellery, Petroleum Products, Uncut gems.

INDIA

Area in sq.km ........... ............. Pop. (billion) ................... ........ Density (per sq.km) ..... ............. Birth rate per thousand ............... Infant mortality per thousand ... Death rate per thousand .............. Natural increase per thousand . Life expectancy Male ................. (Years) Female ....... Pop. under 15 yrs (%) ................ Pop. eco active 16-64 yrs (%) . Pop. above 60 yrs (%) ............... Pop. per doctor ................. ........ Drinking water access (% pop.) Calorie supply per capita ....... . Literacy (% pop.) ....................... Energy cons, per capita (kwh) . Primary enrolment ratio (%) ... Teacher - student ratio................ Urban pop. (%)........................... Labour force (million) ............... GNP per capita (US.$)................ Inflation rate (2015- %) ............. Phones per thousand .................. TVs per thousand .......................

32,87,5

1.22

954

212

TRADE PARTNERS

41

Imports

Exports

Countries

80.0

13.97

13.5%

US USSR & E. Europe Japan W. Germany

24.8% 25.6%

63.8

12.8% 18%

67.3

7.8%

29

36.0

60.7

TOURISM EARNINGS (1992): US $ 1,540,000,000

7.1

MAJOR CITIES & THEIR POPULATION (in M)

2,337

Agra

1.4

Chandigarh

0.96 Madras

4.32

86

Allahabad

1.07

Delhi

10.9 Madurai

0.9

74

Ahmedabad

3.28

Hyderabad

3.59 Nagpur

2.22

52

Bangalore

5.10

Indore

1.83 Patna

1.5

340

Bhopal

1.59

Jaipur

2.71 Pune

2.93

100

Bombay

12.65 Kanpur

2.82 Surat

2.89

1/60.

Calcutta

46.3

Kochi

6.04 Vadodara

1.40

6

Coimbatore

95.98

Lucknow

2.47 Vishakapatnam

1.06

32

PEOPLE : RATIOS RELIGIOUS

4.81

ETHNIC

URBAN/RURAL

5350

8.79

203

65.26

COMMUNICATIONS Railroads - 61,850 ; Road length - 19,70,000 km; Pipelines: Crude oil - 3,497km; Petroleum Products - 1,703 km; Natural gas - 902 km; Buses- 19,173,168; Trucks - 1,289,250; Ports : Major - 11, Minor- 79 ; Civil air - Major transport aircraft - 93; Airfields -336 Usable- 285; Telephones - 4.7 million ; TV Stations - 274 Newspaper - 2,856 dailies; Broadcast stations - 125 AGRICULTURE Coffee, Cotton, Oilseeds, Potatoes, Rice, Sugarcane, Tea, Wheat; Livestock-Buffaloes, Cattle, Goats & Poultry, Sheep. FLORA AND FAUNA FLORA : Alder & Birch, Blue Pine Spruce, Bamboo, Chir, Conifers, Deodar, Dwarf Willows, Junifers, Lau- rels, Maple, Mangroves, Oak, Pine, Rhododendrons, Silver Fir, Silver Birch. FAUNA : Black Buck, Chousingha, Clouded Leopards, Croco-

72 %

Indo-Aryan

Hindu

82.6% Buddhist 0.7%

Urban

25.7%

Dravidian 25% Mongoloid & Others 3%

Muslim

11.4% Jains 0.5%

Rural

74.3%

Christian

2.4% Others 0.4%

Sikh

2%

POPULATION DOUBLING TIME In years (at current rate)

1991 886.3M

MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL _________ ORGANISATIONS

diles, Deer, Ducks, Elephants, Geese, Ghor-Khur, Indian Bison, Langurs, Leopards, Monkeys, My- nahs, Musk Deer, Parakeets, Pigeons, Rare Kashmir Stag, Spotted Deer, Snow leopard, Wild Sheep & Goats.

AfDB, AsDB, IBRD, IDA, IMF

MONETARY

POLITICAL

C, NAM, PCA, IOM (Obs), SAARC

TRADE

AG(obs), CCC, CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-6, G-15, G-19. G-24, G-77, GATT, ICC, ICFTU, WFTU IAEA, ICAO, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMO, ONUSAL, UN, UNAVEM II, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNOMOZ, UNTAC, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO

UN

INDUSTRIES Cement, Food processing, Jute industry, Machinery, Mining, Petroleum, Textiles.

INTERPOL, IOC, ISO, ITU, LORCS, WFTU, WTO

RESEARCH

INMARSAT, INTELSAT __________________________ J