11 Numbers Showing India Has a Long Way to Go to Become the Next China

[Devil Soul]

11 Numbers Showing India Has a Long Way to Go to Become the Next China

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• ERIC BELLMAN
  

With a charismatic, new leader and the world’s strongest economic expansion, India seems at last to be coming out of the shadow of its big neighbor to the north, China.

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  Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China this week is an attempt to demonstrate the South Asian nation’s new confidence and let the world know that India is following in China’s footsteps to become an important global power.
  
  “The re-emergence of India and China and their relationship will have a profound impact on the two countries and the course of this century,” Mr. Modi said in a speech in Beijing on Friday. “Our relationship has been complex in recent decades. But, we have a historic responsibility to turn this relationship into a source of strength for each other and a force of good for the world.”
  
  While it is true that India’s economic growth has surpassed China’s in recent quarters, a quick glance at even the most basic economic indicators show how far India’s economy has to go.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  China’s GDP is almost five times the size of India’s. In fact, its exports in 2013 alone were bigger than India’s entire economy. China’s GDP per capita was around $6,800 that year while India’s was less than $1,500.
  
  Around 10 times more cars are sold in China than in India annually and China has 25% more mobile phone subscribers. India loses on other indicators as well such as power and road infrastructure and the number of toilets.
  
  While India’s diverse and vibrant democracy will continue to dictate and sometimes delay the pace of its march to development, the country understands it could learn a few lessons from China’s success.
  
  Mr. Modi will need some more magic tricks if he ever wants India’s economy to become as large as China’s. At the current rate of economic expansion, that would take 78 years.
  
  Corrections: A previous version of the graphic in the post mislabeled the amount of remittances received in China and India.
  
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[coffee_cup]

Yo man, don't be so cruel and break hearts of our neighbors. Delusions about already being a Supapowa is the only cures about their inferiority complex and makes up the core of their lives.

Don't take that away from them.

Just today, one of their major media outlests was claming to have overtaken China in GDP,

 

[BoQ77]

These number tell the difference

 

[Raphael]

Yo man, don't be so cruel and break hearts of our neighbors. Delusions about already being a Supapowa is one of the core values in their lives and soon to be entered to their school syllabus.

Don't take that away from them.

Just today, one of their major media outlests was claming to have overtaken China in GDP,

The interesting thing about our Indian neighbors is that while many of them harbor delusions of being a superpower, almost none of them, no even the most nationalistic, believes they are on par with China. Which is a logically contradictory set of beliefs to hold because China is not a superpower.

Anyway, the road to greatness requires less pondering and more doing. When you are running a sprint race, you should focus on the finish line. Peering into your neighbor's lane to see how they're doing will only slow you down.

 

[Speeder 2]

Yo man, don't be so cruel and break hearts of our neighbors. Delusions about already being a Supapowa is the only cures about their inferiority complex and makes up the core of their lives.

Don't take that away from them.

Just today, one of their major media outlests was claming to have overtaken China in GDP,

yeah right, wait till my indoor-plumbing killer app comes, wouldn't Indians go jumping off a cliff?

These number tell the difference

but not every working age walla knows how to write down his own veryname, genius!

 

[BoQ77]

but not every working age walla knows how to write down his own veryname, genius!

You can't consider it as true forever fact. Many Chinese can't travel alone aboard. But it doesn't last forever.
While the people getting out of working age need taking care,
While the working force reduced
for sure !

 

[Luca1]

You can't consider it as true forever fact
While the people getting out of working age need taking care, While the working force reduced
for sure !

But the working age men roaming the streets and assault foreign women do not producing anything.

 

[BoQ77]

But the working age men roaming the streets and assault foreign women do not producing anything.

Are you person-attacking to Indian people?
You can't simply apply to the whole working age men and women by few rare case. could happen anywhere in Asia.

 

[Donatello]

China's exports are more than India's entire economy.....and here Indians believe that India can overtake China in 10 years.

 

[Speeder 2]

But the working age men roaming the streets and assault foreign women do not producing anything.

Don't you give new ideas to modi's newly-hired creative accountants!

Taking gang rapes into the account of "make-in-india" , Indian GDP growth would soar to 220% next quarter right away.

 

[Keel]

^^^^^
To the Viet troll:

I see you are the one who has been trolling and attacking China on all fronts everytime your login
Pathetic
You out of a job or something receiving tokens from where Vietcongs, Indians, Japanese or the yanks?

 

[Luca1]

Are you person-attacking to Indian people?
You can't simply apply to the whole working age men and women by few rare case. could happen anywhere in Asia.

Does Vietnam issue a rape warning to female tourist ?

 

[BoQ77]

Does Vietnam issue a rape warning to female tourist ?

Is it on topic? Our female tourists are safe. But I must admit that the way nowaday girls wearing could lead to that issue.

 

[Keel]

But the working age men roaming the streets and assault foreign women do not producing anything.

That is in fact a good point to reflect the dire status of India's unemployment and quality of people who are unfit for sophisticated works

 

[Shamain]

But the working age men roaming the streets and assault foreign women do not producing anything.

Omg omg!!!! How do u know this. So true. I had read this that india cannot become manufacturing giant cuz of labor shortage ,where one reason for unskilled labor is that its youth drop out of vocational schools, quit working due todifficult working conditions, and long commute where logistics arent adequately provided and lastly less motivation and desire.

How did U know thattt?????? U are the first person i have seen here writing that. I am surprised!!