How does India compare?
Topic by topic
The green bar shows on how many measures India's own figure is better today than ten years ago. Measures with no better or worse direction are not scored. Tap a topic to see its charts.
Where India ranks highest
Where India climbed most in ten years
How the figures are worked out
How to read it
- The 12 countries. . They are treated as one list, with no grouping.
- Rank. India's position among the countries that have a figure for the same period. Where two countries have the same figure they share a rank.
- Top third, middle, bottom third. Where India's rank falls in the list. With 12 countries, ranks 1 to 4 are the top third and 9 to 12 the bottom third.
- Better or worse. India's latest figure compared with India's own figure about ten years earlier. A country can get better and still not move up the list, because the others improve too.
- Four points in time. The latest year India has reported, and about 5, 10 and 15 years before that. When there is no figure for the exact year, the nearest one within two years is used and its year is shown.
- No data. Where a country has not reported a figure, the site says "no data". Nothing is filled in or estimated by this site.
- For context only. Some measures, such as military spending or the share of electricity from coal, have no agreed better or worse direction. They show India's position by size and are left out of the counts.
- Draws level around. Arithmetic on past pace: if India and the next country above each keep the pace of their last ten years, the year the two meet. For money and for rates such as deaths per 1,000, the pace is a percentage change a year. For shares such as "% of people with electricity", it is points a year. It is not a forecast.
- Estimate, survey, calculated. These labels mark figures that are modelled by an international agency, taken from a factual survey, or worked out on this site by dividing one published figure by another.
- India's own figures can differ. Each comparison uses one source for all 12 countries so the definition is the same everywhere. Indian ministries sometimes publish a different figure for India using their own definition.
What is not here, and why
Where the numbers come from
Every chart, table and downloaded picture names its source. Each measure also links to the same series on the World Bank's own website, so any figure can be checked. Data licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.