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Eternal India
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PROFILE
BASIC INDICATORS
(2015)
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 .......................
DATA FOR
INDIA
32,87,5
1.22
954
212
41
80.0
13.97
63.8
67.3
29
36.0
60.7
7.1
2,337
86
74
52
340
100
1/60.
6
32
4.81
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-
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.
INDUSTRIES
Cement, Food processing, Jute industry, Machinery, Mining,
Petroleum, Textiles.
EXPORTS
(2015)
$303.7 billion
Chemicals, Clothing, Coffee,
Engineering goods, Fish pro-
ducts, Gems, Jewellery, Leather
manufactures, Tea, Textiles.
IMPORTS
(2015)
$28.2 billion
Capital goods, Chemicals,
Edible oils, Fertilisers, Gems,
Iron ore, Jewellery, Petroleum
Products, Uncut
gems.
TRADE PARTNERS
Countries
US
USSR & E. Europe
Japan
W. Germany
Exports
24.8%
25.6%
7.8%
Imports
13.5%
12.8%
18%
TOURISM EARNINGS (1992): US $ 1,540,000,000
MAJOR CITIES & THEIR POPULATION (in M)
Agra
1.4
Chandigarh
0.96 Madras
4.32
Allahabad
1.07
Delhi
10.9 Madurai
0.9
Ahmedabad
3.28
Hyderabad
3.59 Nagpur
2.22
Bangalore
5.10
Indore
1.83 Patna
1.5
Bhopal
1.59
Jaipur
2.71 Pune
2.93
Bombay
12.65 Kanpur
2.82 Surat
2.89
Calcutta
46.3
Kochi
6.04 Vadodara
1.40
Coimbatore
95.98
Lucknow
2.47 Vishakapatnam
1.06
ETHNIC
PEOPLE : RATIOS
RELIGIOUS
URBAN/RURAL
Indo-Aryan
72
%
Dravidian
25%
Mongoloid & Others 3%
Hindu
82.6% Buddhist 0.7%
Muslim
11.4% Jains 0.5%
Christian
2.4% Others 0.4%
Sikh
2%
Urban
25.7%
Rural
74.3%
POPULATION DOUBLING TIME
In years (at current rate)
1991
886.3M
MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL
_________ ORGANISATIONS
MONETARY
POLITICAL
TRADE
UN
RESEARCH
AfDB, AsDB, IBRD, IDA, IMF
C, NAM, PCA, IOM (Obs), SAARC
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
INTERPOL, IOC, ISO, ITU, LORCS, WFTU, WTO
INMARSAT, INTELSAT
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