India
18 Nov 2010
Please use the menu on the left to drill down to detail.
General information
(Source: CIA World Factbook)
- Capital: New Delhi
- Head of government: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
- Inhabitants: 1,156,897,766 (July 2009)
- GDP/per capita: US$ 3,100 (2009)
- Economic growth: 6.5% (2009)
- Main languages: Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%. English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political and commercial communication. Hindi is the most widely spoken language. There are fourteen other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi and Sanskrit.
- School life expectancy: 10 years (2005)
- Education expenditures: 4.1% of GDP (2008)
- Internet users: 12.8 million (2007)
Higher education
- Number of students in higher education: over 11 million
- Number of institutions: 16,885
- Number of students in the Netherlands: 550 (2009)
