India - Think Diverse
India is the second most culturally, linguistically and genetically diverse geographical entity after the African continent.
- Literacy rate is around 64% (53.7% for females, 75.3% for males)
- While English is the most important language of commerce and Hindi is the national language (spoken by 30% of the population), there are 21 other official languages and around 844 dialects.
- Religous makeup: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%. Four of these (Hinduism, Sikkhism, Jainism, and Buddhism) originated here.
- There are over 300 million middle class residents and over 400 million cows - one for every 2 people.
- Over 1/3 of the income is earned by 10% of people; by contrast, 25% live in poverty (less than $0.40 a day). The median age is 25 and life expectancy is around 69 years.
4 comments:
Interesting reading, thank you
Time to start really getting excited about the move! I'm telling you, Melissa - get an extra camera card and spare battery. The photo ops are fantastic here and are only limited by how often you feel like carrying the camera around!
Hi, Melissa! Imagine you're getting read to take the big silver bird or several of them off to India, and know you heeded Dave's advice. I am not-so-patiently waiting to see your photos...
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