India

India

Capital

New Delhi

Population

1,148,000,000

Land use

arable land: 48.83%, permanent crops: 2.8%

Infant mortality

32.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy

69

Religion

Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%

Languages

Hindi 41%, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi and many others

Literacy

61%

Unemployment

6.8%

Inflation

7.8%

Kingscare projects in India

  • Street kids, Delhi
  • Atulya girls home, Delhi
  • Rafa boys home, Delhi. This is a home for boys with HIV/Aids
  • Shishya in Sailakui, near Dehradun. They run a home for children from leprosy backgrounds, a farm and a school, community development programme and vocational training centre.
  • Child Sponsorship. We support some of the children at the Shishya home and also the Rafa home in Delhi.

Sponsor a child from India

  • In Jaipur we support evening classes for people who are illiterate.


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