Many of them die at birth. According to an investigation by the medical journal The Lancet, Due to poverty, many parents encourage early marriages for their daughters in hopes of better lives for them. The lack of education and the lack of condoms mean that the virus is spreading faster and faster and more and more people are dying of AIDS - especially in the slums of the growing cities. More and more children are living there as so-called AIDS orphans , often being infected with the virus as well.
In a total of 41 SOS Children's Villages across the vast country, around 18, children and young people find a new home - the majority of them are girls. Nearly 5, girls and boys receive access to education at the 16 SOS Hermann Gmeiner schools in the Indian subcontinent.
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Facebook Twitter. At least 56 percent of those rural households do not own any land and depend on manual labor. Among the lowest castes in rural India the number of landless was as high as 70 percent. Share story. By The Associated Press.
India is expected to reach its peak population of 1. The number of children in India peaked over a decade ago and is now decreasing. The census was the second largest the world has ever seen - second only to China's census the previous year. It took place in two phases. The first phase, in April , counted all of the buildings in India, and the second phase collected data about the people of India. The census was a massive exercise, employing millions of Indians.
The census was the fifteenth nationwide census carried out in India. The first was held in , although it was not able to cover all of the British-held Indian territory. India's population continues to grow fairly steadily as the years progress.
Most notably, the population is growing faster than China's. India is expected to surpass China as the world's most populous country around , but like China, the growth is expected to stagnate and eventually decrease in the latter half of the 21st century. Population estimates based on interpolation of data from World Population Prospects. Estimate as of October 23, is: 1,,, The country has doubled in size in just 40 years, and is expected to unseat China as the world's most populated country in the next couple of decades.
India's largest city is Mumbai, with a population of Overall, there are more than 50 urban areas in India with a population of more than one million people. Mumbai formerly Bombay had an official population of 12,, in , although its wider metropolitan area is much larger - home to 18,, people. It has more than doubled in size in the past forty years, although growth has slowed dramatically in the past decade. During the census, its population was recorded as 5. Delhi, India's second most populous city was home to 11,, people according to data , and its metro area contains 21,, people.
Growth in Delhi is even more rapid than Mumbai's, and it is likely that it will overtake Mumbai to become the largest city in India within a decade. The city has struggled to keep up with growth. Nearly half of its residents live in slums , and the city's poverty rate is four times the national average. Contained within Delhi's boundaries is the city of New Delhi , an enclave city which is the official capital city of India.
It has a population of , people.
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