# International rankings of India

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

## Demography

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
| Population | 1 / 207 | Worldometer | 1.398 billion as of December, 2021 |
| Population density | 21 / 207 | World Bank | It was 454.938 people per square kilometer in 2018. |
| Fertility rate | 102 / 201 | World Bank | The total fertility rate in India was 1.98 children per woman in 2021. |
| 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 / 194 | Micro Trends | The current net migration rate for India in 2020 is -0.369 per 1000 population, a 3.66% decline from 2019. |
| Net migrants | 2 / 194 | World Bank | 2012 – 2,598,218 emigrated |
| HEALTH | | |
| Life expectancy | 125 / 195 | Human development Index | 2021– 69.8 years |
| Infant Mortality | 113 / 223 | CIA | 2017 est – 32 per 1000 |
| Ethnic and cultural diversity | 17/ 215 | Fearon Analysis | 2003 |
| Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus | 2 / 194 | International Diabetes Federation | 2017 (72.95 of 425 million diagnosed adult diabetics, live in India) |
| Rate of Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus | 48 / 194 | International Diabetes Federation | 2017 – Percentage of Population affected by Diabetes – 10.39% |
| Cigarette consumption | 12 / 185 | tobaccoatlas.org | 2014 |
| Cigarette consumption per capita | 185 / 185 | tobaccoatlas.org | 2014 |
| Alcohol consumption per capita | 76 / 191 | World Health Organization | 2014 |
| Global Hunger Index | 105/107 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 2024 report |
| Suicide rate | 19 / 176 | World Health Organization | |
| Health Expenditure per capita (PPP) | 141 / 190 | World Health Organization | 2014 – $267 (inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars) |
| Human Capital Index | 115 / 152 | World Bank | 2018 |
| EDUCATION ||||
| Literacy rate | 77.7% | 2017-18 NSO | 2017-18 – 77.7% |
| Human capital | 103 / 130 | WEF – The Global Human capital Report | 2017 |
| Education Index | 145 / 191 | United Nations | 2013 |
| Programme for International Student Assessment | 72 to 74 / 74 | OECD | 2009 |
| LANGUAGE ||||
| Linguistic diversity index | 14 / 232 | SIL International | 2017 |
| Official languages | 2 / 41 | | 22 official languages |

## Society

| List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
| World Happiness Report | 137/156 | UN-SDSN | 20 March 2021 report. Score=3.573 |
| Happy Planet Index | 30 / 140 | New Economics Foundation | 2016 – Score 29.2 |
| Aggregate metrics ||||
| Human Development Index | 131/ 189 | United Nations | 2020 report – score 0.647 |
| Inequality-adjusted HDI | 94/ 151 | UNDP | 2020- score 0.538 |
| Social Progress Index | 117 / 128 | Social Progress Imperative | 2020 report- score 56.80 |
| Where-to-be-born Index | 72/ 80 | Economist Intelligence Unit | 2020- score 5.31 |
| Legatum Prosperity Index | 101 / 149 | Legatum | 2020- score 53.64 |
| Global Youth Development Index | 134 / 183 | Global Youth Development Index | 2016 |
| List of countries by homeless population | 8 / 52 | Business Standard | 2011 – 1,770,000 homeless |
| Urbanization by country | 161 / 199 | CIA The World Factbook | 2015 est |
| Gun ownership | 2 / 179 total # firearms 94 / 179 per capita # | Small Arms Survey | 2017 – 71,101,000 civilian-held firearms or 5.3 guns per 100 residents |
| Gender ||||
| Global Gender Gap Report | 108 / 144 | World Economic Forum | 2018 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 76 / 188 | UNDP | 2017 – value: 0.524 – female Labour force participation rate: 26.8% |
| State of the World's Mothers report | / 77 | Save the Children | 2010 |
| Crime ||||
| Intentional homicides | 2 / 219 | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | 2015 – 41,623 Intentional homicides |
| Global Slavery Index | 4 / 167 | Walk Free Foundation | 2016 – 18,354,700 living in modern slavery |
| Global Terrorism Index | 104/130 | Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) | 2017 |
| Global Peace Index | 139/163 | Visionhumanity.org | 11 June 2020 report. Score=2.628 |

## Economy

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Notes |
| GDP growth rate | 20/132 | 2023 – 7.8% |
| Nominal GDP | 5/185 | 2023 – US $3.74 trillion |
| GDP (PPP) | 3/189 | 2023 – US$13.03 trillion |
| Per capita GDP (nominal) | 148/189 | 2023 – US$2,127 |
| Per capita GDP (PPP) | 140/187 | 2023 – US$7,500 |
| tax revenue to GDP ratio | 109 / 180 | 2022 – 10.8% of GDP |
| Imports | 11/222 | 2023 – US $420 billion |
| Exports | 14/222 | 2023 – US $481 billion |
| Received FDI | 8/115 | 2023 – US $500 billion |
| Number of Billionaires | 3/71 | 2023 - 169 |
| Gold reserve | 13/18 | 2023 – 610 tons |
| Public debt | 82 / 189 | Gdp nominal 2021- 85% |
| Foreign-Exchange reserves | 8/193 | 2023 - US $463 billion |
| Minimum wages | 64 / 156 | 2021 – $1350/yr |
| GNI nominal | 9 / 15 | 2016 – value $2,027,964,000,000 |
| GNI PPP | 3 / 15 | 2021 – value $8,594,226,000,000 international dollars |
| GNI (PPP) per capita | 124 / 179 | 2021 – $5680international dollars |
| Employment rate | 42 / 47 | 2020– 56.6% of 15–64 year olds in employment |
| Intellectual property Index | 36/50 | 2019 |
| Globalization Index | 107 / 184 | 2017 |
| World Competitiveness Yearbook scoreboard | 45 / 63 | 2017 |
| Global Resilience Index | 60 / 130 | 2017 |
| Index of Economic Freedom | 123 / 178 | 2016 |
| Quality-of-life index | 43 / 56 | 2017 |
| Ease of doing business index | 63 / 190 | 2019 |
| Global Competitiveness Index | 68 / 141 | 2019 |
| Index of Economic Freedom | 128 / 178 | 2016 |
| Economic Freedom of the World | 95 / 157 | 2015 – score 6.63 |
| Financial Development Index | 51 / 183 | 2016 |
| Global Innovation Index | 48 / 131 | 2020 report |
| IT industry competitiveness index | 18 / 66 | 2016 |
| ICT Development Index | 134 / 176 | 2017 |
| Global Innovation Index (WIPO) | 39 / 133 | 2024 |
| Space Competitiveness Index | 6 / 15 | 2013 |
| Networked Readiness Index | 91 / 139 | 2016 – Score 3.8 |
| Passengers carried in rail transport | 2 / 86 | 2016 – 8.224 billion passengers |
| Longest Railway platforms | 1 / 5 | |
| rail transport network size | 3 / 149 | 2015 – 68,525 km |
| Traffic-related deaths | 2 / 180 | 2013 – 238,562 deaths |
| Vehicles per capita | 84 / 163 | 2015 – 0.167 per capita, 55,725,543 total |
| Electricity production | 3 / 209 | 2019 – 1,558,700 |
| Steel production | 2 / 38 | 2018 – 101.4 million metric tons |
| Coal production | 2 / 40 | 2018 - 716 Mt |
| Coal consumption | 2 / 20 | 2018 - 982 Mt |

## Communications

The following rankings involving technological advances in communication are taken from the CIA World Factbook.
| List | World rank | Source | Demographics (est.) |
| Telephone Lines in Use | 12 / 218 | CIA The World Factbook | 2019 Jan – 21.79 million |
| Mobile Phones in Use | 2 / 222 | | 1,515,971,713 lines (90.15% density) for 1.37 billion population, as of October 2020 |
| Internet users (pct of population) | 141 / 228 | ITU estimate | 2017 – 40.142% |
| Fixed-Broadband Internet subscribers | 10 / 228 | ITU estimate | 2017 - 17,856,024 |
| 4G LTE penetration | 15 / 75 | OpenSignal | 2017 – 81.56% |
| Internet connection speeds | 89 / 149 | Akamai Technologies | 2017 Q1 – Average 6.5Mbit/s |
| Television broadcast stations | 4 / 233 | | 2016 – 857 licensed stations |
| Wikipedia edits per country | 11 / 165 | Wikimedia | 2013 – 2.9% of edits |

## Sport

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
| CRICKET ||||
| Cricket – men's Test | 1/12 | International Cricket Council(ICC) | 31 July 2023 |
| Cricket – men's ODI | 1/20 | International Cricket Council(ICC) | 15 Aug 2023 |
| Cricket – men's T20 | 1/87 | International Cricket Council(ICC) | 17 Aug 2023 |
| Cricket – women's ODI | 4/13 | International Cricket Council(ICC) | 01 Aug 2023 |
| Cricket -Women's T20I | 4/64 | International Cricket Council(ICC) | 15 Aug 2023 |
| FOOTBALL ||||
| Football – men's | 99/208 | FIFA | 20 July 2023 |
| Football – women's | 60/188 | FIFA | 9 June 2023 |
| HOCKEY ||||
| Hockey -men's | 1 / 96 | International Hockey Federation(FIH) | 12 Aug 2023 |
| Hockey - women's | 8/ 80 | International Hockey Federation(FIH) | 30 July 2023 |
| BADMINTON ||||
| Badminton | 5 / 126 | World Badminton Federation(BWF) | 4 July 2023 |
| CHESS ||||
| Chess – Top-Ranked Player | 4 / 184 | FIDE | 1 Jan 2020 |
| Chess – Number of Players in Top 100 | 2 / 184 | FIDE | 1 Jan 2020 |
| Chess – Women's Top-Ranked Player | 6 / 156 | FIDE | 1 Jan 2020 |
| Chess – Women's Number of Players in Top 100 | 2 / 156 | FIDE | 1 Jan 2020 |
| TENNIS ||||
| ITF rankings - men's | 36/159 | International Tennis Federation | 18 Mar 2024 |
| ITF rankings -women's | 29/142 | International Tennis Federation | 15 Apr 2024 |
| VOLLEYBALL ||||
| FIVB Senior World Rankings - men's | 67/86 | Fédération Internationale de Volleyball | 1 July 2024 |
| FIVB Senior World Rankings - women's | 57/77 | Fédération Internationale de Volleyball | 1 July 2024 |
| BASKETBALL ||||
| FIBA Men's World Ranking - men's | 82/160 | FIBA | 27 Feb 2024 |
| FIBA Women's World Ranking - women's | 79/114 | FIBA | 11 Feb 2024 |
| RUGBY UNION ||||
| World Rugby Rankings | 89/113 | World Rugby | 1 July 2024 |
| World Rugby Women's World Rankings | 50/65 | World Rugby | 1 July 2024 |
| BASEBALL ||||
| WBSC World Rankings - men's | 68/80 | World Baseball Softball Confederation | 31 Dec 2023 |
| WBSC World Rankings - women's | 15/25 | World Baseball Softball Confederation | 31 Dec 2023 |
| WBSC World Rankings - baseball5s | 43/48 | World Baseball Softball Confederation | 16 May 2024 |
| SOFTBALL ||||
| WBSC World Rankings - men's | 26/44 | World Baseball Softball Confederation | 21 May 2024 |
| WBSC World Rankings - women's | 54/65 | World Baseball Softball Confederation | 30 May 2024 |
| OLYMPICS ||||
| All-time Olympic Games medal table | 56 / 154 | IOC | Total=56 medals. Gold=10 Silver=9 Bronze=17 |
| All-time Paralympic Games medal table | 57 / 131 | IOC | Total=31 medals. Gold=9 Silver=12 Bronze=10 |

## Entertainment

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
| Film productions | 1 / 15 | UNESCO | 2021 |
| Cinema box office | 3 / 15 | MPAA | 2019 - $2.4 bn |
| Cinema admissions | 1 / 10 | European Audiovisual Observatory | 2019 – 10,324,000,000 |

## Politics

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
| Corruption Perceptions Index | 86 / 179 | Transparency International | 2020 |
| Press Freedom Index | 148 / 180 | Reporters Without Borders | 2020 |
| Soft power | 24 / 25 | Monocle | 2018-19 |
| Monocle Soft power in Asia | 7 / 10 | Monocle | 2016–17 |
| The Asia Soft power 10 | 3 / 10 | | 2018 |
| Rule of Law Index | 68 / 113 | World Justice Project | 2019 |
| Democracy Index | 51/165 | Economist Intelligence Unit | 2019 (6.90 / 10 flawed democracy ) |
| Democracy Ranking | 65 / 112 | Democracy Ranking | 2015–2016 |
| Corporate Governance | 20 / 38 | GMI Ratings | 2010 |
| E-Government | 96 / 192 | UN | 2018 |
| Global Peace Index | 136/163 | Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) | 2018 |

## Military

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
| Military expenditure | 3 / 186 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute | 2021 – $73 bn or 2.24% of GDP |
| Active troops | 2 / 171 | International Institute for Strategic Studies | 1,450,000 |
| Total troops | 2 / 171 | International Institute for Strategic Studies | 4,941,600 total troops (3.9 troops per 1000 capita) |
| Composite Index of National Capability | 3 / 193 | National power | 2003 – score 0.073444 |
| Overseas bases | 5 / 10 | | 4 overseas bases |

## Awards

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
| Academy Award nominations – Foreign Language Film | 33 / 125 | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | 3 nominations, from 50 submissions |
| Nobel laureates | 19/82 | 8 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 Award | 6/ 13 | Association for Computing Machinery | Indian-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 Sites | 1 / 167 | World Heritage Committee | 40 sites |

## Environment

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
| Carbon dioxide emissions by country | 3 / 214 | United Nations Statistics Division | 2017 |
| Carbon dioxide emissions per capita | 145 / 214 | United Nations Statistics Division | 2009 |
| Climate Change Performance Index 2020 | 10/57 | Germanwatch; The new climate institute and climate action network | 2020 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 177 / 180 | Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy | 2018 |
| Environment Democracy Index | 20 / 70 | World Resources Institute | |
| Air Quality – average PM 2.5 concentration | 84 / 92 | WHO | 2014 – 60.6 μg/m$^3$ |
| Freshwater withdrawal | 1 / 170 | CIA World Factbook | 2008 – 645.84 km$^3$/year |
| Irrigated land area | 2 / 221 | CIA World Factbook | 2012 – 667,000 km$^2$ |
| Global Climate Risk Index 2021 | 7th | Germanwatch | 2021 |

## Geography

| List | INDIA Ranking/Total Countries | Notes |
| Total area | 7/233 | 3,287,364 km$^2$ (1,222,559 sq mile) including land and water |
| Length of coastline | 18/196 | 7,000 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

| Field | Rank | Date (Till) |
| Apple Production, output of 2,327,000 tons | 6 | 2021 |
| Bananas Production, output of 30,808,000 tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Bean Production(dry),output of 6,220,000 tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Buffalo, milk output of 56,960,000 tons | 1 | 2019 |
| Black Pepper, 19% of world output | 3 | 2019 |
| Cauliflowers and Broccoli Production, output of 9,035,000 tons | 2 | 2018 |
| Cardamom Production, output of 15 thousand metric tons | 2 | 2021 |
| Cashew Apple Production, output of 613,000 metric tons | 2 | 2021 |
| Chicken Population, output of 648,830,000 | 4 | 2021 |
| Chickpea Production, output of 5,970,000 tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Coconut Production, output of 11,706,343 | 2 | 2021 |
| Coffee Production(green), output of 326,982 | 6 | 2021 |
| Cotton Production, output of 27.0 million bales | 2 | 2021 |
| Cow Numbers, 281,700,000 cows | 1 | 2021 |
| Fish Production, output of 6,318,887 tons (capture 3,481,136 & aquaculture 2,837,751) | 2 | 2021 |
| Garlic Production, output of 1,721,000 tons | 2 | 2018 |
| Ginger Production, output of 893,242 tons | 1 | 2018 |
| Goat Numbers, 125,700,000 goats | 2 | 2008 |
| Goat Milk Production, output of 4,000,000 metric tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Goat Meat Production, output of 480,000 metric tons | 2 | 2021 |
| Jute Production, output of 1,951,864 tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Lemon & Lime Production, output of 3,148,000 tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Lentil Production, output of 1,620,000 tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Mango Production, output of 16,340,000 tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Millet Production, output of 11,640,000 tons | 1 | 2018 |
| Milk Production, output of 110,040,000 metric tons (cow milk 50.3 million metric tons) | 2 | 2021 |
| Onion Production(dry), output of 22,071,000 metric tons | 2 | 2021 |
| Orange Production, output of 8,367,000 tons | 3 | 2018 |
| Peanut Production, output of 6.25 metric tons | 2 | 2021 |
| Pineapple Production, output of 1,706,000 tons | 6 | 2018 |
| Potato Production, output of 4,85,29,000 metric tons | 2 | 2018 |
| Rice Production, output of 17,25,80,000 metric tons | 2 | 2018 |
| Saffron Production, output of 2,300 kg | 4 | 2021 |
| Sheep Stock, output of 65,000,000 | 3 | 2021 |
| Silk Production, output of 77,000,000 kg | 2 | 2021 |
| Sorghum Production, output of 7,900,000 metric tons | 1 | 2021 |
| Soybean Production, output of 13,786,000 tons | 5 | 2018 |
| Sugarcane Production, output of 37,69,00,000 tons | 2 | 2018 |
| Sweet Potato Production, output of 1,400,281 tons | 8 | 2018 |
| Tea Production, output of 1,344,827 tons | 2 | 2018 |
| Tomato Production, output of 19,377,000 tons | 2 | 2018 |
| Wheat Production, output of 9,97,00,000 metric tons | 2 | 2018 |

## Cities

* The list of cities with most skyscrapers taller than approximately 150 m ranks Mumbai second with 50 buildings behind Dubai.
* The Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC), Loughborough University listed Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore as emerging world cities.
* List of most polluted cities by particulate matter concentration lists several Indian cities highly.

## Religion

| List | INDIA Ranking | Source | Notes |
| Hindu | Most in the world | 2011 Census of India | 2011 – 966,257,353 (India: 79.8%, World: 95%) |
| Muslim | 3 most in world | 2011 Census of India | 2011 – 172,245,185 (India: 14.2%, World: 10.9%) |
| Christian | 26th | 2011 Census of India | 2011 – 27,819,588 (India: 2.30%, World: 1.16%) |
| Sikh | 1st | 2011 Census of India | 2011 – 20,833,116 (India: 1.72%, World: 90.02%) |
| Buddhist | 9th | 2011 Census of India | 2011 – 8,442,972 (India: 0.70%, World: 1.9%) |
| Jain | 1st | 2011 Census of India | 2011 – 4,451,753 (India: 0.37%, World: 64%) |
| Zoroastrian | 1st | 2011 Census of India | 2001 – 69,000 (India: 0.006%, World: 50%) |
| Baháʼí Faith | 1st | 2011 Census of India | 2011 – 1,898,000(India: 0.3%, World: 45%) |
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