Life expectancy at birth - total (years) in Sub Saharan Africa
Sub saharan life expectancy is an average of 56 years.
India is 66 years now and rising as hunger continues to decrease, poverty continues to decrease, economy grows and health and sanitation improves. Give a full term to Modi and lets see.
LOL. Jogging is the only form of exercise? Have you seen the work that is done in majority of rural area. Its a lot more physically demanding than some jogging by a river. Thats also part of the reason why China's obesity rates are much higher than India.
As Obesity Rises, Chinese Kids Are Almost as Fat as Americans - China Real Time Report - WSJ
As for sports, there are plenty of sports in India. Traditional wrestling and Kabbadi are the most popular in rural areas....permeation of western sports beyond cricket is not so high....doesnt mean there are no sports going on.
You attempts at painting a particular image of India become increasingly desperate. Maybe some Indian trolls made you like this over time....but it looks like you are no better than them.
Lumping in a whole country on account of some members on a defense forum seems childish. Why are Chinese so bothered by such trolls and become trolls as well? It just reduces the space we can have a good meaningful conversation with minds and opinions that actually matter.
Market rate size is relevant if every Chinese person went to say the US and bought everything they could using US dollars.
Hence the global footprint of China is felt by virtue of its market rate economic size. Hence most mainstream articles will quote the market rate figure....plus it makes it seem that the US is still the leader (an added advantage to keep their customers content).
This however doesn't mean the PPP is suddenly meaningless...it is simply another measure that captures an alternative measure of an economy with a higher emphasis on domestic purchasing power....which is much more relevant to social development than a hard global economic footprint is.
Thats why no genuine economist will come and say PPP is lousy/bad....because they all clearly know the limitations of each measure....including market nominal GDP.
If we measure by PPP, none of these measures are "small" anymore. I'm not sure what constitutes "small" in your definition....but they would be scaled up to large fractions of China's total if PPP is used.
PPP is simply a multiplier to take into account differing base price levels worldwide. I don't know why you find this so hard to understand when the WB and IMF have explained it very clearly.
World trade is the only indicator out of all that you have mentioned here that is not appropriate for PPP given that world trade for the most part is conducted in US dollars and the Chinese economy has been structured quite differently to Indias in terms of consumption/investment ratios and export-led growth for the past couple decades relatively speaking.
It's chicken or the egg situation....either you accept PPP and these figures grow many times and they are not small....or you dont use PPP period if you want to compare something like trade.
You dont ask how is it the 3rd largest when these blah blah blah figures are so small....you have to scale those figures via PPP too (except for trade)...a factor of more than 3 for India.
Yeah you're figure is way off. Try again.
If they are an unreasonable troll like you, yeah they can laugh all they want.
If they are an educated, open-minded person that knows the A.B.C's of basic economic theory....I doubt they would laugh....rather they would engage in a useful conversation rather than go in a repeated troll mode.
Didnt know much of it,maybe statistic in different websites is different.
their logic is uncanny.
You have not read the IMF or WB explanations of PPP neither have you understood its application. All you are worried about is bragging....anything that threatens bragging rights must be wrong! Inferiority complex at its most brazen.
Yeah keep the CCCP approved statistics coming!
Refer again to World Bank and IMF:
