Comparison of India and China

Comparison of India and China under Economic and Social Barometer

No.	Economic or Social factor	Unit	China	India
1.	Total Area	millions of sq km	9.60 (2.8%)	3.29 (9.5%)
2.	Arable Land	millions of sq km	1.48	1.79
3.	Irrigated Land	millions of sq km	0.53	0.61
4.	Railways - length	in km '000	71.90	63.23
5.	Roadways - paved - length	in km '000	1,447	2,411
6.	Waterways - length	in km '000	123	14.5
7.	Natural Gas - Proved Reserves	in billion cu m	2,530	854
8.	Oil - Proved Reserves	billion bbl	18.60	5.70
9.	Airports - Total/paved/unpaved	numbers	489/389/89	334/239/995
10.	Coastline	in km	14,500	7,000
11.	Steel Production	million tons/year	280	45
12.	Food grain production	million tons/year	418	210
13.	Cement Production	million tons/year	650	150
14.	Crude Oil production	million tons/year	180	40
15.	Coal Production	million tons/year	1,300	300
16.	Electricity generated	Billions of Kilowatts	2,190	557
17.	Transmission & distribution losses	as % of total power	6.8	23.4
18.	Electricity tariff	US$ / 100 KW	4 to 5	8 to 10
19.	Cost of commercial borrowing	as % interest/ year	6 - 7	8 - 16
20.	Telephone lines connected	millions	311	67
21.	TV sets in households	millions	500	85
22.	Mobile/cellular phones	millions	400	100
23.	Internet users	millions	111	51
24.	Foreign trade (China+HongKong)	US$ billions/year	1038+923=1961	260
25.	External debt (China+Hong Kong)	US$ billions	242+416= 658	120
26.	Exports (China+HongKong)	US$ billions/year	752+286= 1038	120
27.	Imports (China + HongKong)	US$ billions/year	632+291= 923	138
28.	Tourist Arrivals	millions/year	87	4
29.	TV broadcast stations	numbers	3240	562
30.	Radio broadcast stations	AM/FM/short wave	369/259/49	153/91/68
31.	FDI inflow (China + Hong Kong)	US$ billions/year	106	8
32.	Forex Reserves (China+Hong Kong)	US$ billions	1017+122= 1,139	175
33.	GDP (China+Hong Kong)	US$ billions	2102+179= 2,281	750
34.	GDP Growth (2006)	in % rate over last year	9.3	7.9
35.	Labour Composition	Agriculture %/Industry %/ Services %	49/22/29	60/17/23
36.	Population	millions	1,314	1,095
37.	Population increase per year	millions	7.2	15.3
38.	Birth rate	Numbers per 1000	13	22
39.	Per Capita income	US$ per year/person	1,498	658
40.	Life expectancy	Years	74	64
41.	Investment	% of GDP	44	25
42.	Poverty line - numbers	%/Numbers in millions	10/131	25/273
43.	Inflation Rate	%	1.9	4.6
44.	Median age	Numbar of years	33	25
45.	Population Growth Rate	% of population	0.59	1.38
46.	Infant mortality rate	Death Rate per 1,000	23	55
47.	GDP (PPP)	US$ billions	8,182	3,699
48.	GDP (PPP) per person	US$ per person/year	6,300	3,400
49.	Fertility Rate	children born/woman	1.73	2.73
50.	Literacy Rate - Definied as age 15 and over	can read & write - % of Pop	91	60
51.	Death Rate	Rate per 1,000 pop	6.97	8.18
52.	Public Debt	% of GDP	29	82
53.	Unemployment rate	% of workforce	20	30
54.	Labour force	in millions	797	496
55.	People living with HIV/AIDS	'000 (2003)	840	5110
56.	Government budget Revenues/Expenditure	US$ billions	392/424	111/126