Tweetable Knowledge: 52 Maps, Stats and Facts About India

Tweetable Knowledge: 52 Maps, Stats and Facts About India

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map or an infograph can condense a ten thousand word thesis into a single digestible chunk. They’re worth a thousand listicles.

India is now the third largest economy in terms of PPP (Purchasing power parity), here are 51 other facts, tweetable nuggets of wisdom that we’ve scavenged like an information magpie, via stat boffins @ianbremmer, @raju, @jairajp, @amazing_maps and other bastions of open data. What are your maps, facts, and stats sources? Wikipedia, Heritage.org, and Gapminder.org are some handy tools. Scroll down all the way to the bottom for an inspirational TED talk from 2009, where Hans Rosling talks about the rise of Asia.

India: Second best at producing wheat,

World Top Ten Wheat Producers 2013 http://t.co/XuZbmz1Vr6 India No. 2 🙂 pic.twitter.com/trGzE9ItUs — Jairaj P (@jairajp) February 15, 2014

the second largest labor force in the world,

Largest Labor Forces 1 China 799m 2 India 487m 3 US 155m 4 Indonesia 118m 5 Brazil 106m 6 Bngladesh 77m 7 Russia 75m 8 Japan 66m 9 Pak 59m — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) December 9, 2013

is one of the worst at feeding it’s own.

Its biggest export seems to be human beings,

Top remittance recipients 1 #India 2 China 3 Philippines 4 Mexico 5 France 6 Nigeria 7 Egypt 8 Bangladesh 9 Pakistan (ht @conradhackett) — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 20, 2014

It’s also one of the most polluted places in the world.

Of the world’s 10 most polluted cities, #Iran is home to four of them…#Pakistan and #India each have two (@WHO). — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 21, 2014

India and China is home to some of the most polluted air. http://t.co/xpnyj8flPo pic.twitter.com/5ml963BPgD — thenextmeme (@TheNextMeme) February 25, 2014

http://t.co/2tcLO9hbbN – Mapping ecological conflicts and spaces of resistance pic.twitter.com/fvP44skH11 — The Next Meme (@TheNextMeme) April 1, 2014

India’s GDP is the same as Canada,

GDP ($Trillion) 1 US 15.7 2 China 8.4 3 Japan 5.6 4 Germany 3.4 5 France 2.6 6 UK 2.4 7 Brazil 2.3 8 Russia, Italy 2 10 India, Canada 1.8 — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 2, 2013

But has 36 times its population.

Kerala has as many people as Canada. RT @raju: Extraordinary indeed. India’s extraordinary population growth: pic.twitter.com/EmdXjjNE34 — thenextmeme (@TheNextMeme) January 23, 2014



Kerala’s GDP is comparable to Myanmar

Indian states compared to countries with similar GDPs. pic.twitter.com/VfKTB1iE9a — Dhruva Jaishankar (@d_jaishankar) May 4, 2014

Maharashtra seems to be the biggest magnet for migrants

Map of internal migration in India. Source: http://t.co/n2HTOKd9i3 pic.twitter.com/EcbznR8nY4 — The Next Meme (@TheNextMeme) March 24, 2014

India’s not exactly the promised land

Beautiful chart of global migration flows. Interactive version at bottom of link: http://t.co/DLlrzRZQ5N pic.twitter.com/MS1wzeIWfE — Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 27, 2014

International Migrants – Map of the World – India under 1%, of course illegal excluded.. pic.twitter.com/lXH0gSONhb — Jairaj P (@jairajp) March 24, 2014

Orissa and Madhya Pradesh average around eight deaths per thousand, each year.

It is one of the youngest countries in the world,

Wow! RT @ianbremmer: % of population under 15 years old Japan 13% Russia 15% China 16% US 20% Brazil 24% India 31% Pakistan 35% Nigeria 44% — Susan McPherson (@susanmcp1) February 9, 2014

one of the poorest,

Where and how people live in the world Source: Reddit User “Cyrus47” – pic.twitter.com/OIfZxF7grI — Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) January 12, 2014

where wages are cheap,

#MayDay India's official minimum wages are among the lowest in the world, even lower than Afghanistan's: http://t.co/7e8DSWQWY9 — Richard Kamei (@Ridchard) May 1, 2014

cricket is a religion,

Most popular sports in the world pic.twitter.com/UI1ymhXrYT — Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) December 15, 2013

and freedom of the press, marginally better than than China or Russia.

World Press Freedom (@RSF_RWB) 1 Finland 2 NL 3 Norway 17 Germany 20 Canada 29 UK 32 US 108 Brazil 140 India 148 Rus 154 Turkey 173 China — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) January 15, 2014

On World Toilet Day, we’d rather talk about Politics and Bollywood

Inadequate sanitation cost the country 53.8 billion USD in 2006, 6.4% of GDP. @ZOMGIndiaFacts #WorldToiletDay http://t.co/0mzvGTOAxp — Sriram Sharma (@slashgod) November 19, 2013

#worldtoiletday celebrated across the world, India suffers from a pathetic state of sanitation http://t.co/Ox6JJ1010N pic.twitter.com/PuDeDBqgKh — Modi Bharosa (@ModiBharosa) November 19, 2013

Here’s how our banking sector is doing:

Interesting: 35% had bank acct, 8% had debit card in India 2011 http://t.co/Cngo8FSEy2 @govindethiraj @ankur_nagar — Prasanto K Roy (@prasanto) June 28, 2013

Lack of access to credit cards explains this:

India only has 7 million unique credit card users http://t.co/v0ILDuDwma — /god ╮ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) ╭ (@slashgod) February 3, 2014

Top 10 Countries in Asia by aggregated Apple App Store and Google Play Revenue pic.twitter.com/ZpoLMFdcPi — The Next Meme (@TheNextMeme) March 14, 2014

Here’s where we stand Internet-wise:

Average download speed around the world pic.twitter.com/3y5si2FXiY — Amazing Maps (@amazinmaps) February 23, 2014

India’s internet penetration now is where China’s was seven years ago 🙁 pic.twitter.com/zQSypc8ntG — Jairaj P (@jairajp) March 21, 2014



The most sincerest form of self love

BTW India stands High on Pornographic Patriotism – Map of the World. Jai Ho! pic.twitter.com/fMUQpX3VlX — Jairaj P (@jairajp) April 14, 2014

Map of Inter-caste Marriages %age Goa 26 Punjab 22 Kerala 21 Haryana 18 K’taka 17 #India 10 Bihar 5 MP 4 UP 4 TN 3 pic.twitter.com/m7KOJwlkEs — Jairaj P (@jairajp) May 8, 2014

Not everyone in India has it bad though..

Average minutes spend by Men doing unpaid housework – No surprises, India at the lowly bottom http://t.co/3GXOrRUi3x pic.twitter.com/T2lIMSsljz — Jairaj P (@jairajp) March 6, 2014

Most Billionaires by Country 1 US 442 2 China 122 3 Russia 110 4 Germany 58 5 India 55 6 Brzl 46 7 Turkey 43 8 HK 39 9 UK 37 10 Canada 29 — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 11, 2013

Apparently poverty is a state of mind

Net worth of Indian billionaires could eliminate absolute poverty in the country twice over http://t.co/TsF0iozTKF No pic.twitter.com/woRkbhw0v1 — Jairaj P (@jairajp) February 6, 2014

Comforting to think that long term climate change wont be kind to Mumbai’s billionaires.

What Asia would look like if all the ice in the world melted pic.twitter.com/CswBndwRvM — Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) November 7, 2013

India is not the biggest spender, but it is the world’s leading arms buyer.

World’s Top Arms Buyers, 2007-12 1 India 2 China 3 S Korea 4 Pakistan 5 Singapore 6 Algeria 7 Australia 8 US 9 Greece 10 UAE — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 22, 2013

Indians are not a homogenous group like the Chinese.

1st languages spoken, globally 1 Mandarin Chinese 12.44% 2 Spanish 4.85% 3 English 4.83% 4 Arabic 3.25% 5 Hindi 2.68% 6 Bengali 2.66% — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 11, 2013

India has a negative current account balance

Current Account Balance, Bottom 5 (2012) 5 Turkey -$60bn 4 Canada -$60bn 3 Brazil -$65bn 2 India -$80bn 1 United States -$487bn — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) August 20, 2013

You probably don’t know this fact:

Maharashtra, UP, TN, AP have more GDP Contribution to India than Gujarat via @ianbremmer pic.twitter.com/tKhmx2GkzL — Haamid Peerzada (@A123LAD) February 6, 2014

India’s biggest destroyers of Shareholder wealth

Half of India’s Top Firms have Destroyed Shareholder Wealth since FY08 http://t.co/TWCPhOdzZY Reliance Top Destroyer pic.twitter.com/k0Kxhk83fc — Jairaj P (@jairajp) February 20, 2014

State of India’s forests

Forest loss in red, 2000-2012. We’re looking at the area bordering Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. pic.twitter.com/jdW1UsKrAs — Sriram Sharma (@slashgod) January 18, 2014

Between 2001 and 2003, India lost about 365524 sq km of ‘Very Dense Forest Area’ – the equivalent area of Germany. pic.twitter.com/0LzGVlHmHD — Sriram Sharma (@slashgod) January 18, 2014

Putting a number to that:

@ZOMGIndiaFacts According to World Bank India is annually losing 5.7 percent of its GDP to environmental decay. http://t.co/mSWd7k2jNv — Sriram Sharma (@slashgod) September 25, 2013

Tourism is a significant source of revenue

Tourism has emerged as India’s fourth biggest major #ForeignExchange earner. India’s foreign exchange earnings… http://t.co/YPbf8ffzsJ — data.gov.in (@DataPortalIndia) November 29, 2013

China sends 3 times more students to US than India

Countries of origin, foreign students in US 1 China 2 India 3 S Korea 4 S Arabia 5 Canada (ht @conradhackett) pic.twitter.com/x40yrBzBhs — ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 24, 2014

China is India’s leading trading partner



Says a lot.. MT @benphillips76 China is the #1 trading partner of all countries in red (and the #2 of all in orange) pic.twitter.com/ZSEAMkP3bZ — Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) December 22, 2013

India pays as much for fuel as Canada or Australia

What’s fruiting this season? Here’s a handy chart

A partial seasonal chart for fruits http://t.co/ddrPQ4ZqaY pic.twitter.com/m6k7gTgKjo — The Next Meme (@TheNextMeme) March 8, 2014

No prizes for guessing India’s National Fruit

India produces 40% of World’s Mango. Storage & Reaching to Markets is Big Issue. But stop calling us Banana Republic! pic.twitter.com/aF6DLmK4p4 — Jairaj P (@jairajp) March 30, 2014

Takeaway: This downloadable e-book on indigenous drugs of India

How are women represented in the workforce and the electoral rolls?

556 women contested 2009 #LokSabha elections in India. 227 of them without the shelter of any political party. pic.twitter.com/Ek9H7coSEG — Mathang Seshagiri (@mathangcito) March 16, 2014

Party Time – Number of Political Parties in Elections – Could cross 400 this time! pic.twitter.com/QkDRLYG7Yr — Jairaj P (@jairajp) March 28, 2014

Gujarat has the highest preference for dynastic politicians

What we ask Google about our politicians

Still here? Check out what the weather is like in this real-time map.



Animated map of global weather conditions http://t.co/F0eRuCKq2Y pic.twitter.com/mWZcgFABBF — Sriram Sharma (@slashgod) February 10, 2014

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