15 Facts About India That Will Blow Your Mind

1. In the next three years, up to 25% of the world's new workers will be Indian


Source: Indian Labour Report via The Hindu

2. 42% of the world's poor live in India.That's over 450 million people living below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day


Source:according to the World Bank.

3. India's GDP per capita will quadruple from 2007 to 2020, according to Goldman Sachs


Source: Goldman Sachs



4. Property prices in Mumbai and Delhi have more than doubled in the past 18 months


Source: Reuters

5. India's tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grade-A offices than Singapore

Source: C B Richard Ellis via Business Standard

6. Half the world’s outsourced IT services come from India, amounting to a $47 billion dollar industry

Source: Sourcing Line

7. Walmart alone outsources $1 billion in IT contracts to India

Source: SupplyChain.cn

8. India is the world's second largest importer of arms and has spent $50 billion on defense purchases in the last decade


Source: Stockholm International Peace Institute via India Defence Online

9. India grows 12 million tons of mangoes in a year, the weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales

Source: National Horticulture Board

10. India's Cherrapnuji is the wettest places on earth, receiving 425 inches of rain every year.That's 6.3 times the rainfall of continental America's rainiest city, Mobile.

Source: BBC / Livescience.com

11. A bigger movie market than America and Canada combined, India sold 3.2 billion tickets last year

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

12. The average Indian is nearly 20 years younger than the average Japanese (26 vs 45).Indians are also around ten years younger than rival China, which was limited in growth by its one-child policy

Source: CIA Factbook

13. In recent decades, 500,000 female births have gone missing each year due to (illegal) sex selection and abortion


This estimate comes from The Lancet via The Boston Globe and is based on 1986-2006.

14. India has 568 million more registered voters than the US -- and a better turnout rate too

Source: The International

15. India used to account for 33% of the world's GDP; then fell to 3%; now may rise to 25%.India led the world in GDP before the industrial revolution, when population meant productivity, and India had the largest population. Following the industrial revolution, India entered a long period of economic stagnation.

The future outlook comes from Goldman Sachs, which sees India passing the U.S. economy in 2050, trailing only China.