India
population: Official projection (1 Jul 2026) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 88 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography86 of 88 metros
India metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Select a metro for its rank and a link to its page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 88 tracked metros
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions
36 entries listed under India across 2 types. Select any to see its metros and footprint.
States (29)
📋 At a glance
- Official languages
- Hindi, English
- Currency
- Indian rupee (₹)
- Government
- Democratic republic
- Legislature
- Parliament of India
- Constitution
- 1949, 54 amendment events since
- Demonym
- Indian
- Time zones
- Indian Standard Time, UTC+05:30
- Driving side
- Left
- Calling code
- +91
- Internet TLD
- .ভারত, .ભારત, .ಭಾರತ, .ভাৰত +8 more
- ISO 3166
- IN
- Established
- 1947
- Highest point
- Kanchenjunga (8,586 m (28,169 ft))
- National anthem
- Jana Gana Mana
Facts via Wikidata.
🗣️ Languages of India
Hindi first; 2 languages share the country; 2 official.
| Language | Share | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 41% | Official | CLDR, country |
| English | 19% | Official | CLDR, country |
| Bengali | 8.1% | Regional | CLDR, country |
| Telugu | 7.2% | Regional | CLDR, country |
| Marathi | 7% | Regional | CLDR, country |
| Tamil | 5.9% | Regional | CLDR, country |
Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.
- English reach
- 19%
- Tier 3 country
- Effective languages
- 4.3
- Official-language gap
- 59%
- Hindi is spoken by 41%
📰 In the news6 stories
CNBC · 29 Oct 2026
Meta- and Google-backed Jio Platforms' shares soar over 21% on trading debut after record IPOJio Platforms rose more than 21% in its debut, becoming India's second most valuable company.
Reuters · 26 Oct 2026
Indian firm eMudhra exits global digital certificates businesseMudhra is leaving the SSL/TLS business after browsers said they would stop trusting its certificates.
The State of Play · 22 Oct 2026
How the ISL got back on the pitchIndia's clubs rebuilt the Indian Super League themselves, and free YouTube streaming drew 65 million views in week one.
The Juggernaut · 19 Oct 2026
Before India Had a Constitution, It Had a Voter Roll130 million names have been removed from India's voter rolls, and the Supreme Court has ordered election officials to respond.
The Juggernaut · 13 Oct 2026
How Chili Peppers Spiced Up the South Asian PalateThe Juggernaut traces how the chili pepper, cultivated by Indigenous peoples of the Americas, remade South Asian cooking.
Business Insider · 10 Oct 2026
Vance says US is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from permanent residency programVance suspended Microsoft and other tech firms from the PERM green-card sponsorship program.
💹 Economy and developmentLower middle income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Alliances & Organisations7 full memberships
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History34 leaders · click to expand
marks a monarch.
Other
Mughal Empire
Elections
Every general election since 1920 →
The world's largest democratic exercise, from the Raj-era assemblies to 970 million voters.
Constitution
Written 1949 →
54 amendment events since, the last in 2023. Compare it with every other country.
Spectrum →
Executive 7.7 (expert)
Legislature 6.8 mean, 1.4 spread · parliamentary
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The power line is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Wars and conflicts37 interstate wars · click to expand
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.” Figures marked “COW battle deaths” are Correlates of War battle-death counts, which run lower than total deaths.
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for India: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
💰 Billionaires233 · $1052.5B combined · click to expand
Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.
🏆 National Teams
India on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.
National Teams Champions
Every major championship won by India's national teams, newest first. 5 in total.
| Year | Date | Champion | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-03-08 | India | T20 World Cup |
| 2024 | 2024-06-29 | India | T20 World Cup |
| 2011 | 2011-04-02 | India | Cricket World Cup |
| 2007 | 2007-09-24 | India | T20 World Cup |
| 1983 | 1983-06-25 | India | Cricket World Cup |
🏟️ League Hubs
Domestic league portals that operate in India: 2 leagues.