The following lists show India's international rankings in various fields and topic
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
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Population | 1 / 207 | Worldometer | 1.398 billion as of December, 2021 [1] |
Population density | 29 / 242 | United Nations | 2024 report [2] |
Fertility rate | 102 / 201 | World Bank | The 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. [4] |
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. [5] |
Net migrants | 2 / 194 | World Bank | 2012 – 2,598,218 emigrated |
Health | |||
Life expectancy | 125 / 195 | Human development Index | 2023– 72.48 years [6] [7] |
Infant Mortality | 49 / 227 | CIA | 2024 report [8] |
Ethnic and cultural diversity | 17/ 215 | Fearon Analysis [9] | 2003 |
Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus | 2 / 194 | International Diabetes Federation | 2017 (72.95 of 425 million diagnosed adult diabetics, live in India) [10] |
Rate of Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus | 48 / 194 | International Diabetes Federation | 2017 – Percentage of Population affected by Diabetes – 10.39% |
Alcohol consumption per capita | 98 / 191 | World Health Organization | 2019 [11] |
Global Hunger Index | 105 / 127 | International Food Policy Research Institute | 2024 report [12] |
Suicide rate | 41 / 183 | World Health Organization | 2024 report [13] |
Health Expenditure per capita (PPP) | 77 / 190 | World Health Organization | 2022 –$79 USD [14] [15] |
Human Capital Index | 116 / 195 | World Bank | 2020 report [16] |
Education | |||
Literacy rate | 80.9% | National Sample Survey Office's (NSSO) Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24 | 2023-2024– 80.9% [17] |
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 |
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
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World Happiness Report | 114 / 147 | UN-SDSN | World Happiness Report 2025 [18] |
Happy Planet Index | 30 / 140 | New Economics Foundation | 2016 – Score 29.2 [19] |
Aggregate metrics | |||
Human Development Index | 130 / 193 | United Nations | 2023 report – score: 0.685 (medium) [20] |
Inequality-adjusted HDI | 119 / 193 | UNDP | 2023- score: 0.475 |
Where-to-be-born Index | 72/ 80 | Economist Intelligence Unit | 2020- score: 5.31 |
Legatum Prosperity Index | 103 / 167 | Legatum | 2023- score 53.66 [21] |
Global Innovation Index | 39 / 133 | World Intellectual Property Organization | 2024- score: 38.3 [22] |
List of countries by homeless population | 8 / 52 | Business Standard | 2011 – 1,770,000 homeless |
Urbanization by country | 190 / 229 | CIA The World Factbook | 2023 est [23] |
Gender | |||
Global Gender Gap Report | 108 / 144 | World Economic Forum | 2018 [24] |
Gender Inequality Index | 76 / 188 | UNDP | 2017 – value: 0.524 [25] – female Labour force participation rate: 26.8% [26] |
State of the World's Mothers report | 140 / 179 | Save the Children | 2015 report [27] |
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 [28] |
Global Terrorism Index | 104/130 | Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) | 2017 |
Global Peace Index | 115/163 | Visionhumanity.org [29] | Global peace index 2025 [30] |
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Notes |
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GDP growth rate | 20/132 | 2023 – 7.8 [31] % |
Nominal GDP | 4/185 | 2025 – US $4.19 trillion |
GDP (PPP) | 3/193 | 2025 – US$17.6 trillion |
Per capita GDP (nominal) | 136/189 | 2025 – US$2,878 |
Per capita GDP (PPP) | 119/189 | 2025 – US$12,132 |
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 | 8/18 | 2025 – 879.6 tons |
Public debt | 82 / 189 | Gdp nominal 2021- 85% |
Foreign-Exchange reserves | 4/193 | 2025 - US $702 billion |
Minimum wages | 64 / 156 | 2021 – $1350/yr |
GNI nominal | 5 / 15 | 2023 – value $3,630,236,700,000 |
GNI PPP | 3 / 15 | 2023 – value $14,324,038,000,000 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 |
Globalization Index | 107 / 184 | 2017 |
World Competitiveness Yearbook scoreboard | 45 / 63 | 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 |
IT industry competitiveness index | 18 / 66 | 2016 |
ICT Development Index | 134 / 176 | 2017 [32] |
Space Competitiveness Index | 6 / 15 | 2013 |
Networked Readiness Index | 91 / 139 | 2016 – Score 3.8 [33] |
Passengers carried in rail transport | 2 / 86 | 2016 [34] [35] – 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 |
The following rankings involving technological advances in communication are taken from the CIA World Factbook. [36]
List | World rank | Source | Demographics (est.) |
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Telephone Lines in Use | 12 / 218 | CIA The World Factbook | 2019 Jan – 21.79 million [37] [38] |
Mobile Phones in Use | 2 / 222 | 1,515,971,713 lines (90.15% density) for 1.37 billion population, as of October 2020 [update] [37] | |
Internet users (pct of population) | 141 / 228 | ITU estimate | 2017 – 40.142% [39] |
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 [40] |
Television broadcast stations | 4 / 233 | 2016 – 857 licensed stations | |
Wikipedia edits per country | 11 / 165 | Wikimedia | 2013 – 2.9% of edits |
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
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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 |
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
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Corruption Perceptions Index | 86 / 179 | Transparency International | 2020 [67] |
Press Freedom Index | 148 / 180 | Reporters Without Borders | 2020 |
Soft power | 24 / 25 | Monocle | 2018-19 [68] |
Monocle Soft power in Asia | 7 / 10 | Monocle | 2016–17 [69] |
The Asia Soft power 10 | 3 / 10 | [70] | 2018 [71] |
Rule of Law Index | 68 / 113 | World Justice Project | 2019 [72] |
Democracy Index | 51/165 | Economist Intelligence Unit | 2019 (6.90 / 10 flawed democracy ) |
Democracy Ranking | 65 / 112 | Democracy Ranking | 2015–2016 [73] |
Corporate Governance | 20 / 38 | GMI Ratings | 2010 |
E-Government | 96 / 192 | UN | 2018 [74] |
Global Peace Index | 136/163 | Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) | 2018 |
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
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Military expenditure | 3 / 186 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute | 2021 – $73 bn or 2.24% of GDP [75] |
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 | 6 overseas bases |
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
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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 |
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Source | Notes |
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Carbon dioxide emissions by country | 3 / 214 | United Nations Statistics Division | 2017 [76] |
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 | [77] |
Air Quality – average PM 2.5 concentration | 84 / 92 | WHO [78] | 2014 – 60.6 μg/m3 [79] |
Freshwater withdrawal | 1 / 170 | CIA World Factbook | 2008 – 645.84 km3/year |
Irrigated land area | 2 / 221 | CIA World Factbook | 2012 – 667,000 km2 |
Global Climate Risk Index 2021 | 7th | Germanwatch | 2021 |
List | India Ranking/Total Countries | Notes |
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Total area | 7/233 | 3,287,364 km2 (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. |
Field | Rank | Date (Till) |
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Apple Production, output of 2,589,000 tons | 5 | 2022 [80] |
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 9,667,000 tons | 1 | 2023 |
Cardamom Production, output of 15 thousand metric tons | 2 | 2021 |
Cashew Apple Production, output of 810,000 metric tons | 2 | 2023 [81] |
Chicken Population, output of 851,810,000 | 1 | 2024 [82] |
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, 307,500,000 cows | 1 | 2023 |
Fish Production, output of 6,318,887 tons (capture 3,481,136 & aquaculture 2,837,751) | 2 | 2021 |
Garlic Production, output of 3,208,000 tons | 2 | 2023 |
Ginger Production, output of 2,170,000 tons | 1 | 2023 |
Goat Numbers, 148,880,000 goats | 1 | 2008 |
Goat Milk Production, output of 6,070,000 metric tons | 1 | 2021 |
Goat Meat Production, output of 550,615 metric tons | 2 | 2022 |
Jute Production, output of 1,951,864 tons | 1 | 2023 |
Lemon & Lime Production, output of 3,800,000 tons | 1 | 2023 |
Lentil Production, output of 1,817,000 tons | 1 | 2021 |
Mango Production, output of 24,000,000 tons | 1 | 2024 |
Millet Production, output of 15,380,000 metric tons | 1 | 2023 |
Milk Production, output of 239,300,000 metric tons (cow milk 50.3 million metric tons) | 1 | 2023 |
Onion Production(dry), output of 31,700,000 metric tons | 1 | 2023 |
Orange Production, output of 10,200,000 tons | 2 | 2023 |
Peanut Production, output of 6.25 metric tons | 2 | 2021 |
Pineapple Production, output of 1,706,000 tons | 5 | 2023 |
Potato Production, output of 58,990,000 metric tons | 2 | 2023 |
Rice Production, output of 137,825,000 metric tons | 2 | 2023 |
Saffron Production, output of 2,600 kg | 2 | 2021 |
Sheep Stock, output of 74,260,000 | 2 | 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 21,320,000 tons | 2 | 2023 |
Wheat Production, output of 113,290,000 metric tons | 2 | 2023 |
List | India Ranking | Source | Notes |
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Hindu | 1st | 2011 Census of India [95] | 2011 – 966,257,353 (India: 79.8%, World: 95%) |
Muslim | 3rd | 2011 Census of India | 2011 – 172,245,185 (India: 14.2%, World: 10.9%) [96] |
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%) [97] |
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%) |