International rankings of India

The following lists show's India's international rankings in various fields and topics. India is a democratic country which gained independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947.

Demography
Further information: Demographics of India
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Population1 / 207Worldometer1.398 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 / 216 World Bank India population growth rate in the year 2021 was 1.09%.
Area 7 / 194 United Nations Statistics Division(UNSD) The area of India is 3,287,263 km square.
Net migration (rate)1 / 194Micro TrendsThe current net migration rate for India in 2020 is -0.369 per 1000 population, a 3.66% decline from 2019.[4]
Net migrants2 / 194World Bank2012 – 2,598,218 emigrated
HEALTH
Life expectancy125 / 195Human development Index2021– 69.8 years[5]
Infant Mortality113 / 223CIA2017 est – 32 per 1000[6]
Ethnic and cultural diversity17/ 215Fearon Analysis[7]2003
Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus2 / 194International Diabetes Federation2017 (72.95 of 425 million diagnosed adult diabetics, live in India)[8]
Rate of Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus48 / 194International Diabetes Federation2017 – Percentage of Population affected by Diabetes – 10.39%
Cigarette consumption12 / 185tobaccoatlas.org2014[9]
Cigarette consumption per capita185 / 185tobaccoatlas.org2014
Alcohol consumption per capita76 / 191World Health Organization2014
Global Hunger Index94/107International Food Policy Research InstituteOct 2020 report
Suicide rate19 / 176World Health Organization
Health Expenditure per capita (PPP)141 / 190World Health Organization2014 – $267 (inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars)
Human Capital Index115 / 152World Bank2018[10]
EDUCATION
Literacy rate77.7%2017-18 NSO2017-18 – 77.7%[11][12]
Human capital103 / 130WEF – The Global Human capital Report2017[13]
Education Index145 / 191United Nations2013
Programme for International Student Assessment72 to 74 / 74OECD2009
LANGUAGE
Linguistic diversity index14 / 232SIL International2017
Official languages2 / 4122 official languages

Society
List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
HAPPINESS
World Happiness Report137/156UN-SDSN20 March 2021 report. Score=3.573
Happy Planet Index30 / 140New Economics Foundation2016 – Score 29.2[14]
Aggregate metrics
Human Development Index131/ 189United Nations2020 report – score 0.647
Inequality-adjusted HDI94/ 151UNDP2020- score 0.538
Social Progress Index117 / 128Social Progress Imperative2020 report- score 56.80
Where-to-be-born Index72/ 80Economist Intelligence Unit2020- score 5.31
Legatum Prosperity Index101 / 149Legatum2020- score 53.64
Global Youth Development Index134 / 183Global Youth Development Index2016
List of countries by homeless population8 / 52Business Standard2011 – 1,770,000 homeless
Urbanization by country161 / 199CIA The World Factbook2015 est
Gun ownership2 / 179 total # firearms
94 / 179 per capita #		Small Arms Survey2017 – 71,101,000 civilian-held firearms or 5.3 guns per 100 residents
Gender
Global Gender Gap Report108 / 144World Economic Forum2018[15]
Gender Inequality Index76 / 188UNDP2017 – value: 0.524[5] – female Labour force participation rate: 26.8%[16]
State of the World's Mothers report/ 77Save the Children2010[17][18]
Crime
Intentional homicides2 / 219United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime2015 – 41,623 Intentional homicides
Global Slavery Index4 / 167Walk Free Foundation2016 – 18,354,700 living in modern slavery[19]
Global Terrorism Index 104/130 Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) 2017
Global Peace Index 139/163 Visionhumanity.org[20] 11 June 2020 report.

Score=2.628

Economy
Further information: Economy of India
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Notes
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 / 156 2021 – $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 36/50 2019
Globalization Index107 / 1842017
World Competitiveness Yearbook scoreboard45 / 632017
Global Resilience Index60 / 1302017[22]
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 Index 48 / 131 2020 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 / 402018 - 716 Mt
Coal consumption2 / 202018 - 982 Mt

Communications

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

List World rank Source Demographics (est.)
Telephone Lines in Use12 / 218CIA The World Factbook2019 Jan – 21.79 million[28][29]
Mobile Phones in Use2 / 2221,515,971,713 lines (90.15% density) for 1.37 billion population, as of October 2020[28]
Internet users (pct of population)141 / 228ITU estimate2017 – 40.142%[30]
Fixed-Broadband Internet subscribers10 / 228ITU estimate2017 - 17,856,024
4G LTE penetration15 / 75OpenSignal2017 – 81.56%
Internet connection speeds89 / 149Akamai Technologies2017 Q1 – Average 6.5Mbit/s[31]
Television broadcast stations4 / 2332016 – 857 licensed stations
Wikipedia edits per country11 / 165Wikimedia2013 – 2.9% of edits

Sport
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
CRICKET
Cricket – men's Test1/12International Cricket Council(ICC)31 July 2023[32]
Cricket – men's ODI1/20International Cricket Council(ICC)15 Aug 2023[33]
Cricket – men's T201/87International Cricket Council(ICC)17 Aug 2023[34]
Cricket – women's ODI 4/13International Cricket Council(ICC)01 Aug 2023[35]
Cricket -Women's T20I 4/64 International Cricket Council(ICC) 15 Aug 2023[36]
FOOTBALL
Football – men's99/208FIFA20 July 2023[37]
Football – women's60/188FIFA09 June 2023[38]
HOCKEY
Hockey -men's 1 / 96 International Hockey Federation(FIH) 12 Aug 2023[39]
Hockey - women's 8/ 80 International Hockey Federation(FIH) 30 July 2023[40]
BADMINTON
Badminton 5 / 126 World Badminton Federation(BWF) 04 July 2023[41]
Rugby Union – men's86 / 109World Rugby14 Aug 2023[42]
CHESS
Chess – All players4 / 184FIDE1 Jan 2020[43]
Chess – women's3 / 156FIDE1 Jan 2020[43]
VOLLEYBALL
fivb Senior World Rankings 68/77 Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
OLYMPIC
Olympic All time Medal's Tally56 / 154IOCTotal=5 medals.

Gold=10

Silver=9

Bronze=16

Paralympic Gold Medals57 / 122IOC2016 – 4 Golds from 11 Games (11 – Summer, 0 – Winter)
Paralympic Medals57 / 122IOC2016 – 12 medals from 11 Games (11 – Summer, 0 – Winter)

Entertainment
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Film productions1 / 15UNESCO2021
Cinema box office3 / 15MPAA2019 - $2.4 bn
Cinema admissions1 / 10European Audiovisual Observatory2019 – 10,324,000,000

Politics
Further information: Economy of India
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Corruption Perceptions Index86 / 179Transparency International2020[44]
Press Freedom Index148 / 180Reporters Without Borders2020
Soft power24 / 25Monocle2018-19[45]
Monocle Soft power in Asia7 / 10Monocle2016–17[46]
The Asia Soft power 103 / 10[47]2018[48]
Rule of Law Index68 / 113World Justice Project2019[49]
Democracy Index51/165Economist Intelligence Unit2019 (6.90 / 10 flawed democracy )
Democracy Ranking65 / 112Democracy Ranking2015–2016[50]
Corporate Governance20 / 38GMI Ratings2010
E-Government96 / 192UN2018[51]
Global Peace Index 136/163 Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) 2018

Military
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Military expenditure3 / 186Stockholm International Peace Research Institute2021 – $73 bn or 2.24% of GDP[52]
Military strength4 / 20Credit Suisse2019
Active troops2 / 171International Institute for Strategic Studies1,450,000
Total troops2 / 171International Institute for Strategic Studies4,941,600 total troops (3.9 troops per 1000 capita)
Composite Index of National Capability3 / 193National power2003 – score 0.073444
Overseas bases5 / 104 overseas bases

Awards
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Academy Award nominations – Foreign Language Film33 / 125Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences3 nominations, from 50 submissions
Nobel laureatesNobel Prize8 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).
Turing Award6/ 13Association for Computing MachineryIndian-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.
World Heritage Sites1 / 167World Heritage Committee40 sites

Environment
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Carbon dioxide emissions by country3 / 214United Nations Statistics Division2017[53]
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita145 / 214United Nations Statistics Division2009
Climate Change Performance Index 202010/57Germanwatch;

The new climate institute and climate action network

 2020
Environmental Performance Index177 / 180Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy2018
Environment Democracy Index20 / 70World Resources Institute[54]
Air Quality – average PM 2.5 concentration84 / 92WHO[55]2014 – 60.6 µg/m3[56]
Freshwater withdrawal1 / 170CIA World Factbook2008 – 645.84 km3/year
Irrigated land area2 / 221CIA World Factbook2012 – 667,000 km2
Global Climate Risk Index 2021 7th Germanwatch 2021

Geography
List INDIA Ranking/Total Countries Notes
Total area7/2333,287,364 km2

(1,222,559 sq mile) including land and water

Length of coastline18/1967,000 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
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
List INDIA Ranking Source Notes
Hindu1st 2011 Census of India[62]2011 – 966,257,353 (India: 79.80%, World: 95%)
Muslim2nd2011 Census of India2011 – 172,245,185 (India: 14.6%, World: 9.57%)[63]
Christian26th2011 Census of India2011 – 27,819,588 (India: 2.30%, World: 1.16%)
Sikh1st2011 Census of India2011 – 20,833,116 (India: 1.72%, World: 90.02%)
Buddhist9th2011 Census of India2011 – 8,442,972 (India: 0.70%, World: 1.9%)
Jain1st2011 Census of India2011 – 4,451,753 (India: 0.37%, World: 64%)[64]
Zoroastrian1st2011 Census of India2001 – 69,000 (India: 0.006%, World: 50%)
Baháʼí Faith1st2011 Census of India2011 – 1,898,000(India: 0.3%, World: 45%)

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