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Agriculture > products rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish
Debt > External	$165,400,000,000.00	[28th of 136]
Distribution of family income > Gini index	36.8	[13th of 43]
Economic freedom	1.5	[123rd of 156]
Economic importance	2.1	[25th of 25]
Exports	$151,300,000,000.00	[25th of 189]
GDP	$906,268,000,000.00	[12th of 203]
GDP > PPP	$3,362,960,000,000.00	[4th of 163]
GDP > Real growth rate	9%	[21st of 198]
GDP per capita in 1973	$853.00	[50th of 52]
GINI index	36.8	[11th of 40]
Gross National Income	$477,000,000,000.00	[12th of 172]
Human Development Index	0.602	[128th of 178]
Income category	Low income
Income distribution > Richest 10%	33.5%	[38th of 114]
Population below poverty line	25%	[9th of 46]
Poverty > Share of all poor people	41.01 % of world's poor	[1st of 80]
Public debt	58.2 % of GDP	[32nd of 121]
Technological achievement	0.2	[59th of 68]
Tourist arrivals	2,374,000	[35th of 152]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The Heritage Foundation; Economic Importance, 1998 (GDP x PC Inc) figures in quadrillion people dollars; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; World Bank. 2005. World Development Indicators 2005.; Angus Maddison; World Development Indicators database; ; Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Development Programme; ; World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC; Country Responsibilities in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals", April 8 2003, by Janice Poling; United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report 2001. New York: Oxford University Press,2001, Table A2.1. via ciesin.org; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: India, Republic of India

COMMENTARY

Ashok 24th July 2009	We cannot provide safe drinking water to majority of our citizens and we boast that we are great and all that. Let us first solve the basic need of drinking water first.
An unknown Indian 12th July 2009	Even if India exceeds Ukby their GDP,I doubt whether an average Indian will be as welloff as an average UK citizen,which I very well doubt.
Adhish Verma 20th May 2009	I am a Post graduate student in economics and am currently working on a Research Paper for which I need the following information: Do we have an income classification for India, like Low, middle and high income category? Some reference, publication?? i'll be grateful if someone could help me out with this. I can receive the information at adhishverma@yahoo.co.in.
divya 30th October 2005	population of countries in 2003 china 128.69 india 104.97 america 29.03 indonesia 23.49 pakistan 15.07 population of countries in 2050 india 160.10 china 141.76 america 42.00 indonesia 33.62 pakistan 26.78

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