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June 19, 2009
- “Today, the average age of India’s population is below 25 years. Approximately, 77 crore of our people, or about 70 percent of the population, fall below the age of 35.”
- “Over the next 20 years, India will likely grow to become the world’s fifth-largest consumer economy.”
- “If India can achieve 7.3 percent annual growth—a reasonable assumption if economic reforms continue—consumer spending will quadruple, from about 17 trillion Indian rupees ($372 billion) in 2005 to 70 trillion rupees in 2025. The dramatic growth in India’s middle class, from 50 million to 583 million people, will power this surge.”
- “In India, 77% of the population is able to spend only Rs 20 a day.”
From Atanu Dey :
- “Today one of out every two children below five is malnourished”
From Shashi Tharoor :
- “Anything that you say about India, the opposite is also true. But India is more than the sum of its contradictions.”
- “600 million people don’t have electricity”
- “260 million are below poverty line, i.e., < 30 rupees per day”
- “400 million illiterates”
- “540 million people < 25 years”
- “60 million child labourers”
- “72% of children in govt. schools drop out before 8th standard”
- “IT employs a total of 5 million people, but 10 million people enter workforce each year”
Feel free to draw your own conclusions.