Blog 2: Country Post

After reading this section of Half the Sky I came upon one country in particular that i thought i wanted to learn more about. I chose to research India for this week's blog post because i hear a lot about how bad the poverty is and all the struggles that go on in the country of India, so i wanted to learn a little more about the country.

India is located in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and by the Bay of Bengal between Burma and Pakistan. India is slightly more than one third the size of the United States. The population of India is 1,189,172,906 as of July 2011. So Compared to the size of the country that is a very high number of people, and those people don't have a lot of place to go because of the size of the country so it is pretty packed. I thought that we here in the United States were to crammed in parts of our country i can't even fathom the idea of that many people in the country I would personally go crazy. The Terrain in India changes drastically; in parts of the country you are in desserts, but then if you are up in the northern part of the country, you will find yourself in the Himalayas. With there being so many people in the country of India, one fact that I found that was a surprise to me is that the average age in the country is about 26 years old. The birth rate in India is about 21 births per 1000 people in the country. These two facts surprised me because the fact that there are so many people in the country I thought that there would be more people whom are older. Another fact that i found surprising was that 2.4 million people in the country are currently living with HIV/ AIDS.

In India only 61% of the whole population can read and write, and 73% of those who can read and write are male, while as 47% of the people who can read in India are female. The capital of India is New Delhi, and the form of government is federal republic. India gained their independence from the UK on August 15, 1947. The unemployment rate in India was 10.8% in 2010, which is close to the same of the current unemployment rate in the United States.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html