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15 Facts About India That Will Blow Your Mind     In the next three years, up to 25% of the world's new workers will be Indian 42% of the world's poor live in India That's over 450 million people living below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day, according to the World Bank.   India's GDP per capita will quadruple from 2007 to 2020, according to Goldman Sachs Source: Goldman Property prices in Mumbai and Delhi have more than doubled in the past 18 months Image: digitalclickclick on flickr Source: Reuters India's tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grade-A offices than Singapore Image: MalayalaM on flickr Source: C B Richard Ellis via Business Standard Half the world's outsourced IT services come from India, amounting to a $47 billion dollar industry Source: Sourcing Line Walmart alone outsources $1 billion in IT contracts to India Image: User:Sven via Wikimedia Commons Source: SupplyChain.cn India is the world's second largest importer of arms and has spent $50 billion on defense purchases in the last decade Image: Wikimedia Commons Source: Stockholm International Peace Institute via India Defence Online India's Cherrapnuji is the wettest places on earth, receiving 425 inches of rain every year Image: Wikimedia Commons  That's 6.3 times the rainfall of continental America's rainiest city, Mobile. Source: BBC / Livescience.com India grows 12 million tons of mangoes in a year, the weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales Image: Sistak via Flickr Source: National Horticulture Board The average Indian is nearly 20 years younger than the average Japanese (26 vs 45) Indians are also around ten years younger than rival China, which was limited in growth by its one-child policy. Source: CIA Factbook A bigger movie market than America and Canada combined, India sold 3.2 billion tickets last year Image: Wikimedia Commons Source: Bloomberg Businessweek India has 568 million more registered voters than the US -- and a better turnout rate too Image: AP Source: The International In recent decades, 500,000 female births have gone missing each year due to (illegal) sex selection and abortion This estimate comes from The Lancet via The Boston Globe and is based on 1986-2006. India used to account for 33% of the world's GDP; then fell to 3%; now may rise to 25% Image: goldman sachs India led the world in GDP before the industrial revolution, when population meant productivity, and India had the largest population. Following the industrial revolution, India entered a long period of economic stagnation. The future outlook comes from Goldman Sachs, which sees India passing the U.S. economy in 2050, trailing only China.           WARM REGARDS, Akhtar khatri *****help what we can with others in need...the world is ONE big family*****   ALL THE MAILS POSTED BY ME R NOT MY PROPERTY, ALL R TAKEN FROM NET, IF SOMETHING IS COPYRIGHTED PLZ INFORM ME, SO THAT I MAY NOT POST THE MATERIAL IN THE FUTURE