India

Introduction

Capital: New Delhi

Population

Total Population: 1,124,786,997

Annual growth rate: 1.3%

Density: 378 inhabitant/km²

Urban population: 29.3%

Population of main cities including suburbs: Delhi (22,400,000); Mumbai (22,300,000); Calcutta (16,000,000); Chennai (8,050,000); Bangalore (7,600,000); Hyderabad (7,350,000).

Ethnic Origins: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and Others 3%

Official Language: Hindi (spoken by more than 50% of the country’s population) and English.

Other languages spoken: 17 regional languages are recognized by the Constitution of India, which include Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi, Telegu, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi. Muslims largely speaks Urdu.

Business language: English

Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%.

Literacy rate: 61.0%

Local time:

It is %T:%M %A in New Delhi

Exchange rate on :

National currency:
Indian Rupee (INR)

Country overview

Type of State: India is a federal Republic state based on parliamentary democracy.

Type of economy: Low-income economy, Emerging Financial Market.
Second greatest population and largest liberal democracy in the world. Importance of agriculture and the IT sector in the economy.

HDI*: 0,609/1

HDI (world rank): 132nd/177

Note: (*) The HDI, Human Development Index, is an indicator which synthesizes several data such as life expectancy, level of education, professional careers, access to culture etc.

Telecommunication

Telephone code:
To call from India, dial 00
To call in India, dial +91

Internet suffix: .in

Computers: 1.5 per 100 inhabitants

Telephone lines: 3.2 per 100 inhabitants

Internet users: 7.0 per 100 inhabitants

Access to electricity: 56% of the population

Foreign trade in figures

Foreign trade indicators	2003	2004	2005	2006
Imports of goods (millions USD)	68,081	95,539	134,702	166,695
Exports of goods (millions USD)	60,893	77,939	102,176	123,617
Imports of services (millions USD)	24,878	35,641	47,989	63,537
Exports of services (millions USD)	23,902	38,281	55,831	75,354