HOW BIG IS INDIA

The following statement shows the list of countries with families have own house. List of top ten countries with percentage of families are given against each. India's percentage is given at the last.

Laos - 95.9, Romania - 95.3,

Kazakhstan - 95, Slovakia - 92.9,

Hungary - 91.7, Croatia - 90.5,

Cuba - 90, North Macedonia - 90

Vietnam - 90, China - 89.68.

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(16th in the list) India - 86.6

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* Indebted to Wikipedia for the above data (Collected between 2014 and 2021)

Top 5 Countries in Retail Household Appliances by Market Size (2021 in USD billion)

1. China - 54

2. USA - 39

3. Japan - 28

4. S.Korea - 22

5. Germany - 19

*Indebted to Global Data

Per capita holding of Motor Vehicles excluding two wheelers are given below.

Top ten countries with number of vehicles per 1,000 population are shown. At the end given is India's rating in the bracket and shown the number of vehicles per 1, 000 population.

(1) Gibraltar - 1,444, (2)Guernsey - 1,365, (3)Dan Marino - 1,300

(4) Liechtenstein - 1,193,

(5) Andorra - 1,050, (6) Monaco -

910, (7) USA - 908, (8) New Zealand - 884, (9) Canada - 790,

(10) Finland - 790

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(152) India -59

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Of the total population of Extreme Poor in the world, 736 million (2015), half of them who cannot afford healthy meals in a day is 368 million live in five countries. Those are India, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Bangladesh.

Countries and Regions with people who cannot afford Healthy Meals.

India - 973.3 Millions

Nigeria - 197.6 M

Brazil - 40.4 M

Russia - 5.0 M

USA - 4.5 M

Fiji - 0.5 M

Asia - 1,891 M

Africa - 1,031 M

Latin America - 131.1 M

Europe - 14.6 M

North America - 5.2 M

(Data courtesy: RMB)

Top 10 Educational System in the world are in the following countries.

1. UK

2. USA

3. Australia

4. Netherlands

5. Sweden

6. France

7. Denmark

8. Canada

9. Germany

10. Switzerland

* Data courtesy to Yashita Sinha of 'upGradAbroad' as updated up to 30 June 2023.

Best Health care system in the world as per the ranking of 2021 are given below.

1. Denmark   2. Germany

3. Sweden     4. Norway

5. Canada      6. Switzerland

7. UK              8. Netherlands

9. Finland    10. Belgium 

While India is placed in the fifth position in the world in GDP behind USA, China, Japan and Germany, we are rated as a fast growing economy. In the coming years we are likely to overtake Germany and Japan and reach the third position. Our political leaders have already announced that India is shortly becoming among the top rich countries in the world. From the above statements one may find whether Indians can have any share in the so called wealth of the country. Under the existing number of political parties India may grow up but Indians may not. Until corruption is eradicated Indians cannot wish to have any economic growth. And whichever the governments may rule the country, their first target should be to bring down the poverty to zero. Another most important thing the people should seriously consider is about to bring a democratically elected Presidential form of government. Take the constitutional and judicial support for this. A presidential form of government may bring down the corruption drastically.

It is now people to act for a change. If do not act appropriately at the right time, our natural resources may be left unused and thereby our educated youth will be left unemployed. We must understand that when we say our country is wealthy in the world, the people should also be rated as wealthy. In order to consider wealthy, the people should have three times healthy meals, each family should have a reasonably spacious and comfortable house, necessary home appliances in the house, a standard car in every house and the people should have reasonable income to maintain all these. Can we expect these in the near future?

K V George