Infant Morality Rate:
Total: 34.61 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 39.42 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 29.23 deaths/1,000 live births

Life Expectancy at Birth:
Total population: 68.59 years
male: 66.28 years
female: 71.17 years

Population: 1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)

Age Structure:
0-14 years: 31.8% (male 188,208,196/female 171,356,024)
15-64 years: 63.1% (male 366,977,821/female 346,034,565)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 27,258,259/female 30,031,289)

Median Age: 24.8 years

Population Growth Rate: 1.606%

Birth Rate: 22.69 births / 1,000 population

Death Rate: 8.18 deaths / 1,000 population

Sex Ratio:
At birth: 1.12 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.098 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.061 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.908 male(s)/female
total population: 1.064 male(s)/female

Major Infectious Diseases:
degree of risk: high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, malaria, and Japanese encephalitis are high risks in some locations
animal contact disease: rabies
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified among birds in this country or surrounding region; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds

Languages:
English is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication
Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people
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:
Total population: 61%
male: 73.4%
female: 47.8%

Caste:
The caste system has been banned although a mind-set of the past remains indicated by their high power distance