Stats on India

  • Population: 1.1 billion
  • Language: English, Hindi (national language and primary tongue of 30%); 21 other official languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanscrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu; Hindustani (unofficial)
  • Religion:  Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 
  • Literacy rate: 61%
  • Primary school enrollment: 76%
  • Population below poverty line: 25%

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