- Population density (people per sq km): 389.23
- Population aged 65+: 59,563,521
- Number of active cellphones (2005): 125,000,000
- India is the world's fourth-largest economy.
- One out of three of the world's malnourished children live in India.
- India has the youngest population on earth: 600 million people are under the age of 25.
- India has 17 major languages and 844 dialects.
- In India's Legislature, Parliament, consists of President and the two Houses, known as Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and Lok Sabha (House of the People).
- The major religions of India are Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism.
- The national Anthem of India is Jan gana mana written by Nobel prize-winning poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
- India's national animal is the tiger, the national flower is the lotus and the national fruit is the mango.
- Fertility rate: 2.7 births per woman
- Average life expectancy at birth: 64
- mortality (per 1000 live births): 57
- Maternal Mortality (per 100,000 live births): 540
- Male Adult literacy (age 15 and older): 73%
- Female Adult literacy (age 15 and older): 48%
- India will surpass China in population by 2032.
- 29% of India's population speaks English – that's 350 million people.
- Approximately 72,000,000 cell phones were sold in India in 2007.
- In 1991 Indians purchased 150,000 automobiles; in 2007 that figure was 10 million.
- Over 70% of India's population live in rural areas.
- India is the largest arms importer in the developing world.
- In India's 2004 general elections, there were more than 687,000 polling stations and 671.5 million voters.
- India has 5.7 million cases of AIDS and HIV, the highest number in the world.
- Elephants killed 248 people in the Assam area from 2001-6. More than 260 elephants died during the same period, many of them victims of poisoning by villagers in the area.
- Over 1,000 films are made each year in India, more than double the number produced by Hollywood.
