International rankings of India explained

The following lists show India's international rankings in various fields and topic

Demography

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesSourceNotes
Population1 / 207 India Worldometer1.398 billion as of December, 2021[1]
Population density21 / 207World BankIt was 454.938 people per square kilometer in 2018.[2]
Fertility rate102 / 201World BankThe total fertility rate in India was 1.98 children per woman in 2021.[3]
Population growth rate (yearly)107 / 216World BankIndia population growth rate in the year 2021 was 1.09%.
Area7 / 194United Nations Statistics Division(UNSD)The area of India is 3,287,263 km square.
1 / 194The current net migration rate for India in 2020 is -0.369 per 1000 population, a 3.66% decline from 2019.[4]
2 / 1942012 – 2,598,218 emigrated
HEALTH
125 / 1952021– 69.8 years[5]
113 / 223CIA2017 est – 32 per 1000[6]
17/ 215Fearon Analysis[7] 2003
2 / 1942017 (72.95 of 425 million diagnosed adult diabetics, live in India)[8]
Rate of Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus 48 / 1942017 – Percentage of Population affected by Diabetes – 10.39%
12 / 185tobaccoatlas.org2014[9]
185 / 185tobaccoatlas.org2014
76 / 1912014
94/107Oct 2020 report
19 / 176
141 / 1902014 – $267 (inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars)
115 / 152World Bank2018[10]
EDUCATION
77.7%2017-18 NSO2017-18 – 77.7%[11] [12]
103 / 130WEF – The Global Human capital Report2017[13]
145 / 1912013
72 to 74 / 74OECD2009
LANGUAGE
14 / 2322017
2 / 4122 official languages

Society

ListIndia Ranking/Total Countries SourceNotes
137/156UN-SDSN20 March 2021 report. Score=3.573
30 / 1402016 – Score 29.2[14]
Aggregate metrics
131/ 189United Nations2020 report – score 0.647
94/ 151UNDP2020- score 0.538
117 / 1282020 report- score 56.80
72/ 802020- score 5.31
101 / 149Legatum2020- score 53.64
Global Youth Development Index134 / 183Global Youth Development Index2016
8 / 52Business Standard2011 – 1,770,000 homeless
161 / 199CIA The World Factbook2015 est
2 / 179 total # firearms
94 / 179 per capita #		2017 – 71,101,000 civilian-held firearms or 5.3 guns per 100 residents
Gender
108 / 1442018[15]
76 / 188UNDP2017 – value: 0.524 – female Labour force participation rate: 26.8%[16]
/ 772010[17] [18]
Crime
2 / 2192015 – 41,623 Intentional homicides
4 / 1672016 – 18,354,700 living in modern slavery[19]
Global Terrorism Index104/130Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)2017
Global Peace Index139/163Visionhumanity.org[20] 11 June 2020 report.Score=2.628

Economy

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesNotes
GDP growth rate20/1322023 – 7.8[21] %
Nominal GDP5/1852023 – US $3.74 trillion
GDP (PPP)3/1892023 – US$13.03 trillion
Per capita GDP (nominal)148/1892023 – US$2,127
Per capita GDP (PPP)140/1872023 – US$7,500
tax revenue to GDP ratio109 / 1802022 – 10.8% of GDP
Imports11/2222023 – US $420 billion
Exports14/2222023 – US $481 billion
Received FDI8/1152023 – US $500 billion
Number of Billionaires3/712023 - 169
Gold reserve13/182023 – 610 tons
Public debt82 / 189Gdp nominal 2021- 85%
Foreign-Exchange reserves8/1932023 - US $463 billion
Minimum wages64 / 1562021 – $1350/yr
GNI nominal9 / 152016 – value $2,027,964,000,000
GNI PPP3 / 152021 – value $8,594,226,000,000 international dollars
GNI (PPP) per capita124 / 1792021 – $5680international dollars
Employment rate42 / 472020– 56.6% of 15–64 year olds in employment
Intellectual property Index 36/502019
Globalization Index107 / 1842017
World Competitiveness Yearbook scoreboard45 / 632017
Global Resilience Index60 / 1302017[22] http://www.fmglobal.com/research-and-resources/tools-and-resources/resilienceindex
Index of Economic Freedom123 / 1782016
Quality-of-life index43 / 562017
Ease of doing business index63 / 1902019
Global Competitiveness Index68 / 1412019
Index of Economic Freedom128 / 1782016
Economic Freedom of the World95 / 1572015 – score 6.63
Financial Development Index51 / 1832016
Global Innovation Index48 / 1312020 report
IT industry competitiveness index18 / 662016
ICT Development Index134 / 1762017[23]
Global Innovation Index48 / 1292020
Space Competitiveness Index6 / 152013
Networked Readiness Index91 / 1392016 – Score 3.8[24]
Passengers carried in rail transport2 / 862016[25] [26] – 8.224 billion passengers
Longest Railway platforms1 / 5
rail transport network size3 / 1492015 – 68,525 km
Traffic-related deaths2 / 1802013 – 238,562 deaths
Vehicles per capita84 / 1632015 – 0.167 per capita, 55,725,543 total
Electricity production3 / 2092019 – 1,558,700
Steel production2 / 382018 – 101.4 million metric tons
Coal production2 / 40 2018 - 716 Mt
Coal consumption2 / 20 2018 - 982 Mt

Communications

The following rankings involving technological advances in communication are taken from the CIA World Factbook.[27]

ListWorld rankSourceDemographics (est.)
12 / 218CIA The World Factbook2019 Jan – 21.79 million[28]
2 / 2221,515,971,713 lines (90.15% density) for 1.37 billion population, [29]
141 / 228ITU estimate2017 – 40.142%[30]
10 / 228 ITU estimate 2017 - 17,856,024
15 / 75OpenSignal2017 – 81.56%
89 / 1492017 Q1 – Average 6.5Mbit/s[31]
4 / 2332016 – 857 licensed stations
Wikipedia edits per country 11 / 165 2013 – 2.9% of edits

Sport

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesSourceNotes
CRICKET
1/12International Cricket Council(ICC) 31 July 2023[32]
1/20International Cricket Council(ICC) 15 Aug 2023[33]
1/87International Cricket Council(ICC) 17 Aug 2023[34]
Cricket – women's ODI 4/13International Cricket Council(ICC) 01 Aug 2023[35]
Cricket -Women's T20I4/64International Cricket Council(ICC)15 Aug 2023[36]
FOOTBALL
Football – men's99/208FIFA20 July 2023[37]
Football – women's60/188FIFA9 June 2023[38]
HOCKEY
Hockey -men's1 / 96International Hockey Federation(FIH)12 Aug 2023[39]
Hockey - women's8/ 80International Hockey Federation(FIH)30 July 2023
BADMINTON
Badminton5 / 126World Badminton Federation(BWF)4 July 2023[40]
CHESS
Chess – All players 4 / 184FIDE1 Jan 2020
Chess – women's3 / 156FIDE1 Jan 2020[41]
TENNIS
ITF rankings - men's36/159International Tennis Federation18 Mar 2024[42]
ITF rankings -women's29/142International Tennis Federation15 Apr 2024[43]
VOLLEYBALL
FIVB Senior World Rankings - men's67/86Fédération Internationale de Volleyball1 July 2024[44]
FIVB Senior World Rankings - women's57/77Fédération Internationale de Volleyball1 July 2024[45]
BASKETBALL
FIBA Men's World Ranking - men's82/160FIBA27 Feb 2024[46]
FIBA Women's World Ranking - women's79/114FIBA11 Feb 2024[47]
RUGBY UNION
World Rugby Rankings89/113World Rugby1 July 2024[48]
World Rugby Women's World Rankings50/65World Rugby1 July 2024[49]
BASEBALL
WBSC World Rankings - men's68/80World Baseball Softball Confederation31 Dec 2023[50]
WBSC World Rankings - women's15/25World Baseball Softball Confederation31 Dec 2023[51]
WBSC World Rankings - baseball5s43/48World Baseball Softball Confederation16 May 2024[52]
SOFTBALL
WBSC World Rankings - men's26/44World Baseball Softball Confederation21 May 2024[53]
WBSC World Rankings - women's54/65World Baseball Softball Confederation30 May 2024[54]
OLYMPICS
56 / 154IOCTotal=56 medals.Gold=10Silver=9Bronze=17
57 / 131IOCTotal=31 medals.Gold=9Silver=12Bronze=10

Entertainment

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesSourceNotes
Film productions1 / 15UNESCO2021
3 / 15MPAA2019 - $2.4 bn
1 / 102019 – 10,324,000,000

Politics

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesSourceNotes
Corruption Perceptions Index86 / 1792020[55]
148 / 1802020
24 / 25Monocle2018-19[56]
7 / 10Monocle2016–17[57]
3 / 10[58] 2018[59]
68 / 1132019[60]
51/1652019 (6.90 / 10 flawed democracy)
65 / 112Democracy Ranking2015–2016[61]
20 / 38GMI Ratings2010
E-Government96 / 192UN2018[62]
Global Peace Index136/163Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)2018

Military

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesSourceNotes
3 / 1862021 – $73 bn or 2.24% of GDP[63]
4 / 202019
2 / 1711,450,000
2 / 1714,941,600 total troops (3.9 troops per 1000 capita)
3 / 1932003 – score 0.073444
5 / 104 overseas bases

Awards

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesSourceNotes
33 / 1253 nominations, from 50 submissions
01/788 Indian Citizens, at the time they were made a Nobel laureate: Mother Teresa (Peace), Amartya Sen (Economics), Kailash Satyarthi (Peace), two British Indian subjects: Rabindranath Tagore (Literature), and C. V. Raman (Physics), along with two Indian-born British subjects: Rudyard Kipling (Literature), Ronald Ross (Medicine), have received the honour. Recently Abhijit binayak banerjee (Economics).
6/ 13Indian-American Raj Reddy, became the first person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award, in 1994, for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
1 / 16740 sites

Environment

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesSourceNotes
3 / 2142017[64]
145 / 2142009
Climate Change Performance Index 2020 10/57Germanwatch;

The new climate institute and climate action network

2020
177 / 1802018
Environment Democracy Index20 / 70[65]
Air Quality – average PM 2.5 concentration84 / 92WHO[66] 2014 – 60.6 μg/m3[67]
1 / 170CIA World Factbook2008 – 645.84 km3/year
2 / 221CIA World Factbook2012 – 667,000 km2https://germanwatch.org/de/14638
Global Climate Risk Index 20217thGermanwatch2021

Geography

ListINDIA Ranking/Total CountriesNotes
7/2333,287,364 km2(1,222,559 sq mile) including land and water
18/1967,000 km coastline with 2.00 coast/area ratio (m/km sq). According to the Indian naval hydrographic charts, the mainland coastline consists of the following: 43% sandy beaches; 11% rocky shores, including cliffs; and 46% mudflats or marshy shores.

Agriculture, fisheries and livestock

See main article: Agriculture in India.

FieldRankDate(Till)
Apple Production, output of 2,327,000 tons62021
Bananas Production, output of 30,808,000 tons12021
Bean Production(dry),output of 6,220,000 tons12021
Buffalo, milk output of 56,960,000 tons12019
Black Pepper, 19% of world output32019
Cauliflowers and Broccoli Production, output of 9,035,000 tons22018
Cardamom Production, output of 15 thousand metric tons22021
Cashew Apple Production, output of 613,000 metric tons22021
Chicken Population, output of 648,830,00042021
Chickpea Production, output of 5,970,000 tons12021
Coconut Production, output of 11,706,34322021
Coffee Production(green), output of 326,98262021
Cotton Production, output of 27.0 million bales22021
Cow Numbers, 281,700,000 cows12021
Fish Production, output of 6,318,887 tons (capture 3,481,136 & aquaculture 2,837,751)22021
Garlic Production, output of 1,721,000 tons22018
Ginger Production, output of 893,242 tons12018
Goat Numbers, 125,700,000 goats22008
Goat Milk Production, output of 4,000,000 metric tons12021
Goat Meat Production, output of 480,000 metric tons22021
Jute Production, output of 1,951,864 tons12021
Lemon & Lime Production, output of 3,148,000 tons12021
Lentil Production, output of 1,620,000 tons12021
Mango Production, output of 16,340,000 tons12021
Millet Production, output of 11,640,000 tons12018
Milk Production, output of 110,040,000 metric tons (cow milk 50.3 million metric tons)22021
Onion Production(dry), output of 22,071,000 metric tons22021
Orange Production, output of 8,367,000 tons32018
Peanut Production, output of 6.25 metric tons22021
Pineapple Production, output of 1,706,000 tons62018
Potato Production, output of 4,85,29,000 metric tons22018
Rice Production, output of 17,25,80,000 metric tons22018
Saffron Production, output of 2,300 kg42021
Sheep Stock, output of 65,000,00032021
Silk Production, output of 77,000,000 kg22021
Sorghum Production, output of 7,900,000 metric tons12021
Soybean Production, output of 13,786,000 tons52018
Sugarcane Production, output of 37,69,00,000 tons22018
Sweet Potato Production, output of 1,400,281 tons82018
Tea Production, output of 1,344,827 tons22018
Tomato Production, output of 19,377,000 tons22018
Wheat Production, output of 9,97,00,000 metric tons22018

Cities

Religion

ListINDIA RankingSourceNotes
HinduMost in the world 2011 Census of India[73] 2011 – 966,257,353 (India: 79.8%, World: 95%)
Muslim3 most in world 2011 – 172,245,185 (India: 14.2%, World: 10.9%)[74]
Christian26th2011 – 27,819,588 (India: 2.30%, World: 1.16%)
Sikh1st2011 – 20,833,116 (India: 1.72%, World: 90.02%)
Buddhist9th2011 – 8,442,972 (India: 0.70%, World: 1.9%)
1st2011 – 4,451,753 (India: 0.37%, World: 64%)[75]
1st2001 – 69,000 (India: 0.006%, World: 50%)
1st2011 – 1,898,000(India: 0.3%, World: 45%)

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  47. Web site: FIBA Women's World Ranking.
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  51. Web site: WBSC World Baseball Rankings - Women's.
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