1,080: population in millions 2005 . . .
3.3: area in millions of square km . . .
2 and 7: India's rankings in the world in terms of population and area respectively . . .
16: official/national languages . . .
22: languages with over one million speakers in India . . .
59.5: percentage of adult literacy (70.2 per cent of men, 48.3 per cent of women) . . .
8,598: height of Kanchenjunga, India's highest point, in metres . . .
17: percentage of Indian university students citing Hitler as a model for leader of India . . .
869.6: Hindus living in India (in millions) . . .
144.76: Muslims living in India (in millions) . . .
1.2: number of Christians in India for every Sikh . . .
80: percentage of the population living on less than $2 a day...
30: percentage of newborns who would qualify for intensive care if they were born in California . . .
127: India's rank in the United Nations Human Development Index (out of 177 countries) . . .
3.4: percentage of politicians at ministerial level who are women
29: number of states that, together with six union territories, make up the federal republic . . .
21: percentage of surveyed Indians who have had unprotected sex without knowing their partner's history (compared to a world average of 47 per cent) . . .
28: percentage of the population living in cities...
19.94: population in millions of Mumbai, India's largest city (2006 estimate)
95: percentage of Indians who do not know what a vindaloo is . . .
2007: the year that the Indian space programme is planning to reach the moon . . .
1: percentage of Indians who have travelled on an aeroplane
69: percentage of Indians with a high income who believe that the US is a positive influence on the world (37.1 per cent in the UK) . . .
29: percentage of Indians with a low income who believe that the US is a positive influence on the world (57.6 per cent in the UK) . . .
4: rank in the world by size of India's coal reserves . . .
44: percentage of wounding or fatal terrorist attacks worldwide in 2004 which took place in India (compared with 32 per cent in Iraq) . . .
2009: the year of the next general election . . .
333: number of airports (the UK has 471) . . .
77: percentage of Indians who do not believe that their country is governed by the will of the people
50: estimated gay population of India in millions . . .
7:
percentage of Indians who supported social acceptance of homosexuality in 2002 survey ...
213: percentage increase in electricity consumption per capita between 1980 and 2002 (32 per cent in the UK)...
50: percentage increase in CO2 emissions per capita from1990 to 2002
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