India

Official Name:

Republic of India (India)

Area:

3.287.590 km ²

Population (2007):

1.129.866.154 inhabitants

Coastline:

7.000 km

Capital:

New Delhi

Maritime Ports and terminals:

Chennai, Haldia, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), New Mangalore, Vishakhapatnam

Maritime claims:

• Territorial sea: 12 nm
• Contiguous zone: 24 nm
• Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
• Continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin

Political divisions:

28 states and 7 union territories; Andaman and Nicobar Islands*, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli*, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

Language(s):

English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language

National holiday:

Republic Day, 26 January (1950)

Nationality:

Indian(s)

Official time:

UTC 5.5.

Member of:

AfDB, ARF, AsDB, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIMSTEC, BIS, C, CERN (observer), CP, EAS, FAO, G- 6, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), ONUB, OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC, SACEP, SCO (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMEE, UNMIS, UNMOVIC, UNOCI, UNOMIG, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Internet country code:

.in

Economic Profile

Currency:

Indian rupee (INR)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

USD3.800 (2006 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):

(2006 est.) USD 804.000.000.000

PIB (Real growth rate:

9,2% (2006 est.)

GDP (Composition by sector): (2005 est.)

• Agriculture: 19,9%
• Industry: 19,3%
• Services: 60,7%

Labor force:

509.300.000 (2006 est.)

Labor force - by occupation (2003):

• Agriculture 60%
• Industry:12%
• Services 28%

Unemployment rate:

7,8% (2006 est.)

Inflation rate (Consumer prices):

5,3% (2006 est)

Investment (Gross Fixed):

29,2% del PIB (2006 est.)

Budget:

• Revenues: USD109.400.000.000
• Expenditures: USD143.800.000.000

Public debt:

52,8% of GDP (2006 est.)

Current account balance:

USD-26.400.000.000 (2006 est.)

Exports:

USD 112.000.000.000 FOB (2006 est.)

Exports - Commodities:

Textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures

Exports - Partners:

US 16,7%, UAE 8,5%, China 6,6%, Singapore 5,3%, UK 4,9%, Hong Kong 4,4% (2005)

Imports:

USD 187.900.000.000 FOB (2006 est.)

Imports - Commodities:

Crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals

Imports - partners:

China 7,3%, US 5,6%, Switzerland 4,7% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

USD 165.000.000.000 (2006 est.)

Debt - external:

USD 132.100.000.000 (2006)