story · 11 plates
India's rise
People, payments, markets and code: where India has caught up with the world's leaders, or passed them.
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Humanity
India now has more working-age people than China
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Economy
India's UPI now handles 86% as many payments as Visa
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Humanity
Indian students now outnumber Chinese students in the US
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Technology
India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined
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Economy
India's stock market grew 23-fold since 2000
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Technology
Indian phone users now average 25 GB of data monthly
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Cities
India's metro network quadrupled in a decade
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Food
India now ships over a third of world rice exports
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Energy
India went from 1% to 37% of Russia's crude sales
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Planet
India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006
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Energy
Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric