CAN INDIA EVER REACH THE TOP LAYER OF THE WORLD
Before finding an answer to this we must know where our country stands in various fields like wealth, literacy, agriculture, health, cleanliness, safety, discipline, defence etc in comparison with developed countries. We may go through some selected area as shown below.
Per Capita Income.
According to the report by Forbes, the GDP per capita PPP as on the second half of 2024, the top countries in USD are:
Luxembourg - 151,150
Singapore - 148,190
Macao SAR - 130,420
Ireland - 127,750
Qatar - 115,070
Norway - 103,450
India - 11,111
Highest home ownership rates in the world. (Name of the country with highest percentage on top with concerned years of rating. Indebted to Wikipedia)
Kazakhstan - 98% - 2024
Laos - 95.9% - 2015
Romania - 95.6% -2023
Albania - 95.3% - 2023
Slovakia - 93.6% - 2023
China - 93% - 2024
India (17) - 86.6% - 2011
As updated by World Bank in 2022 the following countries have low poverty rates. This is based on USD 2.15 per day.
Panama - 1.3% (2023)
Italy - 0.8% (2021)
Sweden - 0.6% (2021)
Spain - 0.6% (2021)
Austria -0.5% (2021)
Iceland - 0% (2024)
India : According to the World Bank rating 129 million Indians are living below poverty line in 2024 at the ratings of USD 2.15 per day or below. Since the revised poverty line rate of middle income group countries are being revised to USD 6.85 per day, poverty rating of India will be much above at the current rating in the coming years.
Literacy rate
According to the report of the World Population Review the following countries hold 100% literacy. This report is as per world standard of literacy.
Azerbaijan, Finland, Norway, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, North Korea , Kazakhstan,
Georgia , Luxembourg, Andorra, Greenland etc are holding 100% literacy. This says that total population are literates. Further to the above there are 37 countries with literacy above 99%. 77.7-86.3. Despite considerable improvement in literacy level, the current literacy rate of India in world standards is 77.7% against the world average of 86.3%.
Health care
According to Lancet Medical Journal's Global Burden of Diseases Study
India ranks 145th of 195 countries surveyed. The top countries as per the survey are:
Australia, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea etc are on top.
Cleanliness
According to the Environmental Performance Index 2024, the cleanest countries in the world are listed below with their respective scores in 100.
Estonia (75.3), Luxembourg (75), Germany (74.6), Finland (73.7), UK (72.7), Sweden (70.5), Norway (70), Austria (69), Switzerland (68) and Denmark (67.9)
India stands at 176th position among 180 countries.
We have compared our country with other advanci countries in economic and other relevant fields.
We have experienced different governments managed by almost all political parties of the country for about 77 years. Leaving the earlier few governments our country has been deeply submerged in corruption. Unless we come out of the precarious state of corruption our country cannot be in par with the economically developed countries. The way we are moving ahead the people of the country have compromised with corruption in every field of life. Even if the people do not have money for their 'roti and daal' they are willing to pay bribe for their day to day need in government offices. Unless and until we overcome this situation our beloved country cannot become an economically advanced country.
Now we all together may put the best efforts to bring up the people of the country to the top layer of the developed countries of the world.
K V George
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