 | The number of companies listed on the Bombay
Stock Exchange, at more than 6,000, is second only to NYSE. |
| Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run
by Indians. |
| With 800 movies per year, India's film industry
overshadows Hollywood. |
| The organised lottery market in India is US$7bn
(2% of GDP). |
| India consumes a fifth of the world's gold
output. |
| Indians account for 45% of H1-B visas issued by
the US every year. |
| Growing at 6%, in 25 years Indian GDP (on a PPP
basis) will be at the same level the US is at today. |
| Six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss
World titles over the past 10 years. No other country has won more
than twice. |
| Bank deposits in India roughly equal 50% of its
GDP Πagain, among the highest in the world. |
| Indian Railways is the largest railway network
in the world under single management. |
| India has the third-largest army in the world,
nearly 1.5 million strong. |
| India is the largest producer and consumer of
tea in the world, accounting for more than 30% of global
production and 25% of consumption. |
| India is the world's premier center for diamond
cutting and polishing. |
| Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world
pass through India. |
| India has the highest number of annual bulk
drugs filings (77) with USFDA. |
| India is home to the largest number of
pharmaceutical plants (61) approved by USFDA outside the US. |
| India's Hero Honda is the world's largest
motorcycle manufacturer, with 2002 production of 1.7m units. |
| Other than US and Japan, India is the only
country to have built a super computer indigenously. |
| Indian Railways is the largest employer in the
world, with a staff of 1.6 million people. |
| It is the second-largest cement-producing
country in the world, producing more than 110m tonnes. |
| Of the Fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource
their software-related work to India. |
| There are 8,500 Indian restaurants in the UK,
15% of the country's total dining-out establishments. |
| India is the largest democracy in the world,
with nearly 400m voting in the last national elections. India has
the second-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world. |
| India has the third-largest investor base in
the world. |
| According to the Gemological Institute of
America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds. |
| The Kumbh Mela festival, held every 12 years in
the city of Allahabad, attracts 25 million people Πmore than the
population of 185 of the 227 countries in the world. |
| The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as
Benares, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world
today. |
| There are 3.22 million Indians in the US. |
| Indians are the richest immigrant class in the
US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires. |
| India is ranked the sixth country in the world
in terms of satellite launches. |
| There are over 70,000 bank branches in India -
among the highest in the world. |
