Today 74.7 percent of the population lives in rural areas and 24.3 percent inhabit urban areas. In urban areas there is a heavy concentration of telephones, televisions and doctors. As 70 percent of the countrys population mainly in rural areas lack access to primary health care the worst affected is the elderly, young women and children. Major environmental issues in rural areas are deforestation, soil erosion, overgrazing, desertification, and water pollution from runoff of agricultural pesticides. In urban areas there are issues of water pollution from sewage and air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions. India is also prone to natural disasters such as droughts, flash floods, severe thunderstorms and earthquakes

Rural Population 72.2%, male: 381,668,992, female: 360,948,755 (2001 Census) Age structure 0–14 years: 30.8%, male: 188,208,196, female: 171,356,024 15–64 years: 64.3%, male: 386,432,921, female: 364,215, years: 4.9%, male: 27,258,259, female: 30,031,289 (2007 est.) Median age 25.1 years Population growth rate 1.548% (2009 est.)

Population growth rate 1.548% (2009 est.) Birth rate births/1,000 population (2009 est.) Death rate 6.4 deaths/1,000 population (2009 est.) Map showing the literacy rate of each district in India. Literacy rate 71.7% (Age 7 & above) )

Religious demography of India Composition HindusMuslimsChristiansSikhsBuddhistJains Others (Jews, Baha'is and Parsis) % total of population %13.40 %2.30 %1.90 %0.80 %0.40 %0.60 % 10 Yr Growth-% (Est. ' 01- ' 11) %29.50 %22.60 %18.20 %24.50 %26.00 % % Child sex ratio (0 - 6 yrs) Urban sex ratio , Rural sex ratio , Total sex ratio (Avg. 944) , , 000 Literacy rate (71.7 % for Age 7 & above) 75.5 % 60 %90.3 % 70.4 %73 % 95 % 50 % Work Participation Rate 40.4 %31.3 %39.7 %37.7 %40.6 %32.9 %48.4 % The country of India has got the largest portion of Hindus, Zoroastrians, Jains, Sikhs residing in the world. The nation even houses world's third-biggest Muslim population. Though the prevalence of religious communities vary from one state or Union Territory to another, still some places are known for being home to any particular religious group. These groups are as follows: States or Union Territories with majority of Muslim population: Lakshadweep and Jammu and Kashmir. States or Union Territories with majority of Christian population: Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland. States or Union Territories with majority of Sikh population: Punjab. The below-mentioned table can help us in gathering an overall idea about the religious demography of India as per Census 2011:

Linguistic Demography of India LanguageSpeakersPercentage Assamese 13, 168, % Bengali 83, 369, % Gujarati 46, 091, % Hindi dialects 4, 22, 048, % Kannada 37, 924, % Malayalam 33, 066, % Marathi 71, 936, % Tamil 60, 793, % Telugu 74, 002, % Urdu 51, 536, % Hindi, being the national language of the country, most the Indians speaks Hindi language. However, the dialects and languages spoken in the nation again vary from place to place and community to community. India has got a total of 1, 652 dialects and languages. Census of India, 2011 shows the following details about the linguistic demography of the Indian Republic:

India is one of the most populated countries in the world, next only to China. Although India occupies only 2.4% of the total area of the world it supports over 15% of the world population, as revealed by statistics. Employment

Open unemployment is not a true indicator of the gravity of the unemployment problem in an economy such as India, characterized as it is by large-scale underemployment and poor employment quality in the unorganized sector, which accounts for over 90 per cent of the total employment. The organized sector contributes only about 9 per cent to the total employment. Underemployment in various segments of the labor force is quite high. For instance, though open unemployment was only 2 per cent in , the incidence of under-employment and unemployment taken together was as much as 10 per cent that year. This, in spite of the fact that the incidence of underemployment was reduced substantially in the decade ending

A government-appointed expert committee on pension reforms has recommended hike in retirement age in private sector to 60 years, in a move with considerable repercussions for employment plans and post-retirement benefits.

India is projected to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by India's population growth has raised concerns that it would lead to widespread unemployment and political instability. Source: 2020: 1,326,093, : 1,460,743, : 1,571,715, : 1,656,554,000

Solution of Unemployment There are various factors that are responsible for unemployment i country. Unemployment can be due to seasonal layoff particularly in agricultural sector. It can be due to technological changes in an automated industry or due to lack of adequate skills by the workers. Unemployment can also be due to fluctuation in the economy. All these factors add to the problem of unemployment. And because of this unemployment problem we are wasting our valuable human resource.