Global InformationDemographics of India information
| Demographics of India | |
|---|---|
 India population pyramid in 2020 | |
| Population |  1,425,775,850[1]
(2023 est.) |
| Density | 473.42 people per.km2 (2021 est.)[2] |
| Growth rate | 0.68% (2022 est.)[2] |
| Birth rate | 16.1 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)[2] |
| Death rate | 6.6 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)[2] |
| Life expectancy | 70.0 years (2023 est.)[3] |
| • male | 70.5 years (2023 est.) |
| • female | 73.6 years (2023 est.) |
| Fertility rate |  2.00 children born per woman (2023)[2] |
| Infant mortality rate | 29.94 deaths/1,000 live births (2018)[4] |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 25.68% (male 183,695,000/female 166,295,000) (2021 est.) |
| 15–64 years | 67.49% (male 472,653,000/female 447,337,000) (2021 est.) |
| 65 and over | 6.83% (male 44,275,000/female 48,751,000) (2021 est.) |
| Sex ratio | |
| Total | 1.06 male(s)/female (2023)[5] |
| At birth | 1.1 male(s)/female (2023)[5] |
| Under 15 | 1.11 male(s)/female (2023)[5] |
| 15–64 years | 1.07 male(s)/female (2023 est.) |
| 65 and over | 0.85 male(s)/female (2023)[5] |
| Nationality | |
| Major ethnic | See Ethnic groups of India |
| Language | |
| Official | See Languages of India |
| Spoken |
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India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population. According to estimates from the United Nations (UN), India has overtaken China as the country with the largest population in the world, with a population of 1,425,775,850 at the end of April 2023.[6][7][8][9]
Between 1975 and 2010, the population doubled to 1.2 billion, reaching the billion mark in 2000. According to the UN's World Population dashboard, India's population now stands at slightly over 1.428 billion, edging past China's population of 1.425 billion people, as reported by the news agency Bloomberg.[9] Its population is set to reach 1.7 billion by 2050.[10][11] In 2017 its population growth rate was 0.98%, ranking 112th in the world; in contrast, from 1972 to 1983, India's population grew by an annual rate of 2.3%.[12]
In 2022, the median age of an Indian was 28.7 years,[13] compared to 38.4 for China and 48.6 for Japan; and, by 2030; India's dependency ratio will be just over 0.4.[14] However, the number of children in India peaked more than a decade ago and is now falling. The number of children under the age of five peaked in 2007, and since then the number has been falling. The number of Indians under 15 years old peaked slightly later (in 2011) and is now also declining.[15]
India has many ethnic groups,[16] and every major religion is represented, as are four major families of languages (Indo-European, Dravidian, Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan languages) as well as two language isolates: the Nihali language,[17] spoken in parts of Maharashtra, and the Burushaski language, spoken in parts of Jammu and Kashmir. 1,000,000 people in India are Anglo-Indians and 700,000 United States citizens are living in India.[18] They represent over 0.1% of the total population of India. Overall, only the continent of Africa exceeds the linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity of the nation of India.[19]
The sex ratio was 944 females for 1000 males in 2016, and 940 per 1000 in 2011.[20] This ratio has been showing an upwards trend for the last two decades after a continuous decline in the 20th century.[21]
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- ^ a b "India overtakes China to become world's most populous nation with 1.428 billion people: UN". The Economic Times. 20 April 2023. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ Rick Gladstone (29 July 2015). "India Will Be Most Populous Country Sooner Than Thought, U.N. Says". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 January 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
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- ^ Basu, Kaushik (25 July 2007). "India's demographic dividend". BBC News. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ "India's population growth will come to an end: the number of children has already peaked". Our World in Data. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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- ^ "Country Profile: India" (PDF). Library of Congress – Federal Research Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2009.
- ^ "Population" (PDF). Government of India (2011). Census of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 January 2012.
- ^ "Sex Ratio Trend over Century in India – Open Governance India". Knoema. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2018.