From childhood till now, we grew up learning a lot about India's rich heritage, traditions, cultures and what not!
Let us now explore our country in terms of ‘numbers'... which are growing with each passing day!
Some facts are interesting, informative and amazing while some gives an eye-opening reality check.
Let's take a look...
Peace loving country
In past 100,000 years of time, India never invaded or even tried invading any country... and surely feels no need to plan up such things in the near future...
Population of India
As we know, India ranks second in the list of most populous country. Its population has been rapidly growing year after year extraordinarily in comparison to any other country.
In just last decade, India added nearly 181 million in its already rocketing figures, i.e. surplus population of Pakistan.
Languages
Kos Kos pe badle paani, chaar kos pe baani!
The proverb aptly depicts the versatility of languages being spoken in India. According to a survey, Indians speak in nearly 780 languages, of which 220 lost their existence in last 50 years.
Chaimal is a language that is spoken by just four or five people living in Tripura.
Young India
Nearly half of India's population is under 24 years of age and almost 64% of Indians are in the working class. This proves that India has the youngest and largest workforce
Biggest Family (144 members)
Indians have deep trust in family system and it clealry shows! And it has been reflected by this fact that World's biggest family resides in India.
The head of the family lives with his 38 wives, 32 sons, 18 daughters, 22 grandsons, 26 granddaughters, 7 great grandchildren in Mizoram.
Milky India
India produces approximately 132.4 million tons of milk a year, turning into world's largest milk producer.
Millionaire
Millions of Indians are millionaires yet nearly 35% of Indian population is surviving on less than 2 dollars a day!.
Postal Network
Chithi aaye hai.. aayi hai.. bade dino ke bad aayi hai!
The song still makes us nostalgic and so does when postman drops us a letter from our beloved. Wow!
Though, we no more rely on post offices in times of rapidly growing technology. But, to your surprise India has the largest postal networking in the world with 1, 50,000 post offices.