Saturday, March 27, 2010

Demographics

Telugu is the official language of the state, spoken by 80.5% of the population. Telugu is the third most widely spoken language in India, after Hindi and Bengali.[21] The major linguistic minority groups in the state include the speakers of Urdu (8.63%) and Hindi (1.63%), Kannada (1.8%) and Tamil (1.91%).The Indian government designated Telugu as a classical and ancient language on November 1, 2008.[23]

Other languages spoken in Andhra Pradesh by less than 1% each are Marathi (0.84%), Oriya (0.42%), Gondi (0.21%) and Malayalam (0.1%). Languages spoken by less than 0.1% are the states residents include Gujarati (0.09%), Savara (0.09%), Koya (0.08%), Jatapu (0.04%), Punjabi (0.04%), Kolami (0.03%), Konda (0.03%), Gadaba (0.02%), Sindhi (0.02%), Gorkhali/Nepali (0.01%) and Khond/Kondh (0.01%).

The main ethnic group of Andhra Pradesh is the Telugu people who primarily are Dravidians.

Andra Pradesh ranks tenth compared to all Indian States in the Human Development Index scores with a score of 0.416.

National Council of Applied Economic Research district-wise analysis in 2001 reveals that Khammam, Krishna, West Godavari, Chittoor and Medak are the five districts with highest Human Development Index scores in ascending order in rural AP. Mahbubnagar, East Godavari, Warangal, Visakhapatanam and Guntur are the districts with lowest Human Development Index. The data show that the poor make up 16.3 per cent of the total population in rural AP and expenditure on consumption is around 13.5 per cent of the total consumption expenditure. The female literacy rate is 0.66 compared to male literacy rate in rural AP. The district-wise variations for poverty ratio are high and low for ratio of female/male literacy rate

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