Say It With Numbers: #4-2008

• India
• Foreign tourist arrivals in India touched the 5 million mark in 2007 (it was 4.45 million in 2006) earning USD 11.96 billion in tourism
• Indian travel and tourism industry directly and indirectly accounts for 5.5% of the country’s total employment and 5.3% of its GDP
• Manufacturing sector in India contributes just 17% to the GDP while its over 50% in China and over 40% in Thailand
• More than 50% of India is under 25, more than 33% under 15
• Over 72% of India’s population lives in rural India
• 75% of India’s poor are in the villages
• Nearly 87% of India’s 640,000 villages have population clusters of 2000 people or below
• Nearly 35% of India’s villages are yet to be connected by roads
• Tele-density in rural India is barely 1%
• Last year the US consumer spent $9.5 trillion, the Chinese consumer $1 trillion, the Indian consumer $650 billion
• Of the about 8 million population in Israel, 1 million are Muslims
• A recession is 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth
• The US economy accounts for 30% of the worlds GDP
• It took the US almost 50 years after its independence to give the vote to 3% of its population and at that time even the UK had only 3% of its population with the right to vote. In the US, it took almost 100 years to have universal suffrage. India started its democracy granting the universal right to vote.
• Indian IT industry
• Total revenue of the IT-IT enabled services (ITES) industry is expected to be $47.8 billion this year up from $37.4 billion last year
• Software and services export continues to grow at around 30 per cent and has reached $31.4 billion
• The contribution of IT-ITES industry to country’s GDP grew to 5.4 per cent from 4.7 per cent of last year, thus providing employment to more than 1.6 million of our youth.
• In the last half century alone, the world has lost 1/4^th of its topsoil and 1/3^rd of its forest cover
• In the past 3 decades, 1/3^rd of the planet’s natural wealth has been consumed