India My Country

India is one of the most populated countries in the world. In the year 2001 India became the second country in the world after China to cross the one billion mark. About 1,080,264,388 people live today in India. By the middle of the 21st century, India will have passed China in the terms of number of inhabitants. India's population grew by 21.34 % between 1991 and 2000. If the growth continues in the same way, space might be a problem. 

Although India occupies only 2.4% of the world's land area, it supports over 15% of the world's population. 63.5% of the population are the age of 14-65. The population is growing with an annual speed of 1.44%. About 70% of the people live in more than 550,000 villages, and the remainder in more than 200 towns and cities.

In every region of the world there are culture and social differences that set
countries apart.   Each with an economic, social and political outlooks on the
future that determine the way people live.   These endless arrays, even occur in
different parts of a particular of every country including one of the worlds
most diverse, India.

India is separated into 25 states and 7 territories which create 16 major
languages and 1,000 minor languages and dialects.   This diversity in language
creates somewhat of a barrier for India to become one of the foremost leaders in
world because of the lack of unity.   Although, in the past, the India government
has taken steps to correct this matter with promoting Hindi as the national
language.   However, Indians who cannot speak Hindi frowned upon this notion.
They believed the best jobs would go to Indians who spoke Hindi and with their
pride of their regional languages kept them from accepting this unity, thus
government decided against this idea.   Now, the India government recognizes 13
regional languages as official languages.   Children in schools learn Hindi as
their second language, with English being used primary in higher education.

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