[lbo-talk] Yoga -- Not as Old as You Think

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> Good food, good music, lots of very smart and educated people, and a rich disputatious political culture?

-Caste system still alive and kicking
-Extremely low literacy rate

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 61%
male: 73.4%
female: 47.8% (2001 census)

Education expenditures:
3.2% of GDP (2006)
country comparison to the world: 142

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
2.4 million (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 4

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
310,000 (2001 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 66.46 years
country comparison to the world: 159
male: 65.46 years
female: 67.57 years (2010 est.)

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

FC