Brazil cut poverty by more than India despite much lower growth, just over 1% a year in 1993-2005, compared with India's 5%.
For example, 53% of respondents in Israel and 50% of respondents in the U.S. said they use social networks, compared with 5% in India and 2% in Pakistan.
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Exports accounted for only 15% of India's GDP in 2008, compared with 33% in China, so India should have been much less affected by the global downturn.
Yet Apple accounts for just 5% smartphone shipments to India, compared with 40% for market leader Samsung.
The release of the L-1 visa data makes it difficult for U.S. government officials to argue that nothing different is going on in India when compared with the rest of the world.
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It has 400m internet-users compared with America's 240m and India's 80m.
Loans are only about a third of India's GDP compared with over 100% in China.
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Last year only 9, 000 Brazilians studied in the U.S. (excluding language students), compared with 260, 000 from China and India.
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It is also the most engineer-intensive country, with 981 engineering degrees per million citizens, compared with 553 for China and 197 for India.
Unilever benefits from India's continued reliance on small family shops (compared with the supermarkets prevalent in China), with which it has long-established relationships, and from India's far larger bottom-of-the-pyramid population.
In 2020 the median age in India will be 28, compared with 38 in America, 45 in western Europe and 49 in Japan.
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For every 10, 000 patients, India has 6 doctors (compared with 19 in the U.S. and 32 in Europe) and 7 hospital beds (25 in the U.S., 64 in the eu).
Although India has broadly cut import duties and increased foreign-ownership limits over the past ten years, large sections of the economy remain sheltered by high tariffs and restrictions on foreign direct investment, which amounts to just 0.7 percent of India's GDP, compared with 4.2 percent in China and 3.2 percent in Brazil.
Over half the population lives off less than 2, 400 calories a day, compared with an average of a third for all of India.
Hedge fund manager Chaudhri thinks basic economics augur favorably: Compared with the amount of Western art sloshing around, India has a relatively small body of post-independence work.
But provided liberalisation keeps creeping along, for a while an economy that increases by anywhere near 7% may seem impressive compared with the poor South-East Asian tigers that India was so keen to emulate.
India's growth may look enviable compared with some Western economies, many of which are close to or in recession.
India is on the rise, but compared with China, its venture capital market lags in deals and fund sizes.
India's tablet computer market is still nascent compared with other parts of the world but is growing, with telecommunication companies rolling out high-speed Internet networks using third-generation and fourth-generation communication technology.
Just 26% of women in India have an account with a formal financial institution, compared with 46% of men.
In the third quarter, the company's subscriber base in India grew 53% to 9.7 million, compared with the same quarter in 2004.
India's trade deficit has also narrowed in March compared with February.
His ministry's calculations, which predate China's announcement, allegedly show that such emission-curbing steps could reduce the carbon intensity of India's economy by around 25% by 2020 compared with 2005 levels.
As many as 854, 708 shares of Coal India were traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange Monday, compared with its average daily volume of 278, 000 shares over the past two weeks.
According to news reports, India bought 12% less Iranian crude between April and September compared with a year earlier.
Mr Singh's romantic life had become a casualty of India's preference for boy babies, which in his state, Haryana, has led to the most skewed sex ratio in India: 116 to 100, according to the 2001 census, compared with a national average of 108.
India spends a little over 4% of its GDP on healthcare, compared with an average of 8-9% among developed countries.
When firms with a score of 2 or less are excluded, the average score across the board rises from 2.62 to 2.88 in India and from 2.64 to 2.91 in Greece, compared with a small rise from 3 to 3.09 in more competitive Britain and from 3.3 to 3.33 in super competitive America.
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India s mortgage-to-GDP ratio is a mere 3%, compared with 50% in the U.S. and 20% in Southeast Asia.
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