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. Indias 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 worlds land area, it supports over 15% of the
worlds 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 setcountries apart.
Each with an economic, social and political outlooks on thefuture that determine the way
people live. These endless arrays, even occur indifferent parts of a particular of every
country including one of the worldsmost diverse, India.
India is separated into 25 states and 7 territories which create 16 majorlanguages and 1,000
minor languages and dialects. This diversity in languagecreates somewhat of a barrier for
India to become one of the foremost leaders inworld because of the lack of unity.
Although, in the past, the India governmenthas taken steps to correct this matter with
promoting Hindi as the nationallanguage. However, Indians who cannot speak Hindi
