International rankings of India

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The following lists show India's international rankings in various fields and topic

List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Population1 / 207Worldometer1.398 billion as of December, 2021[1]
Population density29 / 242United Nations2024 report[2]
Fertility rate102 / 201World BankThe total fertility rate in India was 1.98 children per woman in 2021.[3]
Population growth rate (yearly) 107 / 216 World Bank India population growth rate in the year 2021 was 1.09%.
Area 7 / 194 United Nations Statistics Division(UNSD) The area of India is 3,287,263 km square.[4]
Net migration (rate)1 / 194Micro TrendsThe current net migration rate for India in 2020 is -0.369 per 1000 population, a 3.66% decline from 2019.[5]
Net migrants2 / 194World Bank2012 – 2,598,218 emigrated
Health
Life expectancy125 / 195Human development Index2023– 72.48 years[6][7]
Infant Mortality49 / 227CIA2024 report[8]
Ethnic and cultural diversity17/ 215Fearon Analysis[9]2003
Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus2 / 194International Diabetes Federation(India has approximately 74.2 millions number of people with diabetes)[10]
Alcohol consumption per capita98 / 191World Health Organization2019[11]
Global Hunger Index105 / 127International Food Policy Research Institute2024 report[12]
Suicide rate41 / 183World Health Organization2024 report[13]
Health Expenditure per capita (PPP)77 / 190World Health Organization2022 –$79 USD[14][15]
Human Capital Index116 / 195World Bank2020 report[16]
Education
Literacy rate80.9%National Sample Survey Office's (NSSO) Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-242023-2024– 80.9%[17]
Programme for International Student Assessment72 to 74 / 74OECD2009
Language
Linguistic diversity index14 / 232SIL International2017
Official languages2 / 4122 official languages

Society

List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
World Happiness Report114 / 147UN-SDSNWorld Happiness Report 2025[18]
Happy Planet Index30 / 140New Economics Foundation2016 – Score 29.2[19]
Aggregate metrics
Human Development Index130 / 193United Nations2023 report – score: 0.685 (medium)[20]
Inequality-adjusted HDI119 / 193UNDP2023- score: 0.475
Legatum Prosperity Index103 / 167Legatum2023- score 53.66[21]
Global Innovation Index39 / 133World Intellectual Property Organization2024- score: 38.3[22]
List of countries by homeless population8 / 52Business Standard2011 – 1,770,000 homeless
Urbanization by country190 / 229CIA The World Factbook2023 est[23]
Good Country Index 53 / 149 goodcountry.org 2022 report[24]
Gender
Global Gender Gap Report108 / 144World Economic Forum2018[25]
Gender Inequality Index76 / 188UNDP2017 – value: 0.524[26] – female Labour force participation rate: 26.8%[27]
State of the World's Mothers report140 / 179Save the Children2015 report[28]
Crime
Intentional homicides2 / 219United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime2015 – 41,623 Intentional homicides
Global Slavery Index34 / 160Walk Free FoundationGlobal Slavery Index (2023 edition)[29]
Global Terrorism Index 14 / 100 Visionhumanity.org 2024 report[30]
Global Peace Index 115 / 163 Visionhumanity.org Global peace index 2025[31]

Economy

List India Ranking/Total Countries Notes
GDP growth rate20/1322023 – 7.8[32]%
Nominal GDP4/1852025 – US $4.19 trillion
GDP (PPP)3/1932025 – US$17.6 trillion
Per capita GDP (nominal)136/1892025 – US$2,878
Per capita GDP (PPP)119/1892025 – US$12,132
tax revenue to GDP ratio109 / 1802022 – 10.8% of GDP
Imports11/2222023 – US $420 billion
Exports14/2222023 – US $481 billion
Received FDI8/1152023 – US $500 billion
Number of Billionaires3/712023 - 169
Gold reserve8/182025 – 879.6 tons
Public debt82 / 189Gdp nominal 2021- 85%
Foreign-Exchange reserves4/1932025 - US $702 billion
Minimum wages64 / 156 2021 – $1350/yr
GNI nominal5 / 152023 – value $3,630,236,700,000
GNI PPP3 / 152023 – value $14,324,038,000,000 international dollars
GNI (PPP) per capita124 / 1792021 – $5680international dollars
Employment rate42 / 472020– 56.6% of 15–64 year olds in employment
Globalization Index107 / 1842017
World Competitiveness Yearbook scoreboard45 / 632017
Index of Economic Freedom123 / 1782016
Quality-of-life index43 / 562017
Ease of doing business index63 / 1902019
Global Competitiveness Index68 / 1412019
Index of Economic Freedom128 / 1782016
Economic Freedom of the World95 / 1572015 – score 6.63
Financial Development Index51 / 1832016
IT industry competitiveness index18 / 662016
ICT Development Index134 / 1762017[33]
Space Competitiveness Index6 / 152013
Networked Readiness Index91 / 1392016 – Score 3.8[34]
Passengers carried in rail transport2 / 862016[35][36] – 8.224 billion passengers
Longest Railway platforms1 / 5
rail transport network size3 / 1492015 – 68,525 km
Traffic-related deaths2 / 1802013 – 238,562 deaths
Vehicles per capita84 / 1632015 – 0.167 per capita, 55,725,543 total
Electricity production3 / 2092019 – 1,558,700
Steel production2 / 382018 – 101.4 million metric tons
Coal production2 / 402018 - 716 Mt
Coal consumption2 / 202018 - 982 Mt

Communications

The following rankings involving technological advances in communication are taken from the CIA World Factbook.[37]

List World rank Source Demographics (est.)
Telephone Lines in Use12 / 218CIA The World Factbook2019 Jan – 21.79 million[38][39]
Mobile Phones in Use2 / 2221,515,971,713 lines (90.15% density) for 1.37 billion population, as of October 2020[38]
Internet users (pct of population)141 / 228ITU estimate2017 – 40.142%[40]
Fixed-Broadband Internet subscribers10 / 228ITU estimate2017 - 17,856,024
4G LTE penetration15 / 75OpenSignal2017 – 81.56%
Internet connection speeds89 / 149Akamai Technologies2017 Q1 – Average 6.5Mbit/s[41]
Television broadcast stations4 / 2332016 – 857 licensed stations
Wikipedia edits per country11 / 165Wikimedia2013 – 2.9% of edits Archived 24 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine

Sport

List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Cricket
Cricket – men's Test4/12International Cricket Council24 May 2025[42]
Cricket – men's ODI1/20International Cricket Council12 June 2025[43]
Cricket – men's T201/100International Cricket Council30 May 2025[44]
Cricket – women's ODI3/13International Cricket CouncilJune 2025[45]
Cricket – women's T20I3/64International Cricket CouncilMarch 2025[46]
Football
Football – men's127/210FIFAJune 2025[47]
Football – women's70/189FIFA12 June 2025[48]
Hockey
Hockey – men's5/96International Hockey FederationJune 2025[49]
Hockey – women's9/80International Hockey FederationJune 2025[50]
Badminton
Badminton 5 / 126 World Badminton Federation(BWF) 4 July 2023[51]
Chess
Chess – Top-Ranked Player3 / 184FIDE1 Jan 2020[52]
Chess – Federation Rank Open2 / 184FIDE1 Jan 2020[52]
Chess – Women's Top-Ranked Player6 / 156FIDE1 Jan 2020[52]
Chess – Federation Rank Women's2 / 156FIDE1 Jan 2020[52]
Tennis
ITF rankings - men's 36/159 International Tennis Federation 18 Mar 2024[53]
ITF rankings -women's 29/142 International Tennis Federation 15 Apr 2024[54]
Volleyball
FIVB Senior World Rankings – men's52/76Fédération Internationale de Volleyball14 June 2025[55]
FIVB Senior World Rankings – women's56/69Fédération Internationale de Volleyball14 June 2025[56]
Basketball
FIBA Men's World Ranking – men's76/160FIBA28 March 2025[57]
FIBA Women's World Ranking – women's79/160FIBA2025[58]
Rugby Union
World Rugby Rankings 89/113 World Rugby 1 July 2024[59]
World Rugby Women's World Rankings 50/65 World Rugby 1 July 2024[60]
Baseball
WBSC World Rankings - men's 68/80 World Baseball Softball Confederation 31 Dec 2023[61]
WBSC World Rankings - women's 15/25 World Baseball Softball Confederation 31 Dec 2023[62]
WBSC World Rankings - baseball5s 43/48 World Baseball Softball Confederation 16 May 2024[63]
Softball
WBSC World Rankings - men's 26/44 World Baseball Softball Confederation 21 May 2024[64]
WBSC World Rankings - women's 54/65 World Baseball Softball Confederation 30 May 2024[65]
Olympics
All-time Olympic Games medal table 60 / 154 IOC Total=41 medals.[66]

Gold=10 Silver=10 Bronze=21

All-time Paralympic Games medal table 56 / 131 IOC Total=60 medals.[66]

Gold=16 Silver=21 Bronze=23

Entertainment

List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Film productions1 / 15UNESCO2021
Cinema box office3 / 15MPAA2019 - $2.4 bn
Cinema admissions1 / 10European Audiovisual Observatory2019 – 10,324,000,000

Politics

List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Corruption Perceptions Index86 / 179Transparency International2020[67]
Press Freedom Index148 / 180Reporters Without Borders2020
Soft power24 / 25Monocle2018-19[68]
Monocle Soft power in Asia7 / 10Monocle2016–17[69]
The Asia Soft power 103 / 10[70]2018[71]
Rule of Law Index68 / 113World Justice Project2019[72]
Democracy Index51/165Economist Intelligence Unit2019 (6.90 / 10 flawed democracy )
Democracy Ranking65 / 112Democracy Ranking2015–2016[73]
Corporate Governance20 / 38GMI Ratings2010
E-Government96 / 192UN2018[74]
Global Peace Index 136/163 Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) 2018

Military

List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Military expenditure3 / 186Stockholm International Peace Research Institute2021 – $73 bn or 2.24% of GDP[75]
Active troops2 / 171International Institute for Strategic Studies1,450,000
Total troops2 / 171International Institute for Strategic Studies4,941,600 total troops (3.9 troops per 1000 capita)
Composite Index of National Capability3 / 193National power2003 – score 0.073444
Overseas bases5 / 106 overseas bases

Awards

List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Academy Award nominations – Foreign Language Film33 / 125Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences3 nominations, from 50 submissions
Nobel laureates19/828 Indian Citizens, at the time they were made a Nobel laureate: Mother Teresa (Peace), Amartya Sen (Economics), Kailash Satyarthi (Peace), two British Indian subjects: Rabindranath Tagore (Literature), and C. V. Raman (Physics), along with two Indian-born British subjects: Rudyard Kipling (Literature), Ronald Ross (Medicine), have received the honour. Recently Abhijit binayak banerjee (Economics).
Turing Award6/ 13Association for Computing MachineryIndian-American Raj Reddy, became the first person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award, in 1994, for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
World Heritage Sites1 / 167World Heritage Committee40 sites

Environment

List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes
Carbon dioxide emissions by country3 / 214United Nations Statistics Division2017[76]
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita145 / 214United Nations Statistics Division2009
Climate Change Performance Index 202510/57Germanwatch;

The new climate institute and climate action network

 2025
Environmental Performance Index177 / 180Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy2018
Environment Democracy Index20 / 70World Resources Institute[77]
Air Quality – average PM 2.5 concentration84 / 92WHO[78]2014 – 60.6 μg/m3[79]
Freshwater withdrawal1 / 170CIA World Factbook2008 – 645.84 km3/year
Irrigated land area2 / 221CIA World Factbook2012 – 667,000 km2
Global Climate Risk Index 2021 7th Germanwatch 2021

Geography

List India Ranking/Total Countries Notes
Total area7/2333,287,364 km2

(1,222,559 sq mile) including land and water

Length of coastline18/1967,000 km coastline with 2.00 coast/area ratio (m/km sq). According to the Indian naval hydrographic charts, the mainland coastline consists of the following: 43% sandy beaches; 11% rocky shores, including cliffs; and 46% mudflats or marshy shores.

Agriculture, fisheries and livestock

FieldRankDate

(Till)

Apple Production, output of 2,589,000 tons52022[80][circular reference]
Bananas Production, output of 30,808,000 tons12021
Bean Production (dry), output of 6,220,000 tons12021
Buffalo, milk output of 56,960,000 tons12019
Black Pepper, 19% of world output32019
Cauliflowers and Broccoli Production, output of 9,667,000 tons12023
Cardamom Production, output of 15 thousand metric tons22021
Cashew Apple Production, output of 810,000 metric tons22023[81]
Chicken Population, output of 851,810,00012024[82]
Chickpea Production, output of 5,970,000 tons12021
Coconut Production, output of 11,706,34322021
Coffee Production(green), output of 326,98262021
Cotton Production, output of 27.0 million bales22021
Cow Numbers, 307,500,000 cows12023
Fish Production, output of 6,318,887 tons (capture 3,481,136 & aquaculture 2,837,751)22021
Garlic Production, output of 3,208,000 tons22023
Ginger Production, output of 2,170,000 tons12023
Goat Numbers, 148,880,000 goats12008
Goat Milk Production, output of 6,070,000 metric tons12021
Goat Meat Production, output of 550,615 metric tons22022
Jute Production, output of 1,951,864 tons12023
Lemon & Lime Production, output of 3,800,000 tons12023
Lentil Production, output of 1,817,000 tons12021
Mango Production, output of 24,000,000 tons12024
Millet Production, output of 15,380,000 metric tons12023
Milk Production, output of 239,300,000 metric tons (cow milk 50.3 million metric tons)12023
Onion Production(dry), output of 31,700,000 metric tons12023
Orange Production, output of 10,200,000 tons22023
Peanut Production, output of 6.25 metric tons22021
Pineapple Production, output of 1,706,000 tons52023
Potato Production, output of 58,990,000 metric tons22023
Rice Production, output of 137,825,000 metric tons22023
Saffron Production, output of 2,600 kg22021
Sheep Stock, output of 74,260,00022021
Silk Production, output of 77,000,000 kg22021
Sorghum Production, output of 7,900,000 metric tons12021
Soybean Production, output of 13,786,000 tons52018
Sugarcane Production, output of 37,69,00,000 tons22018
Sweet Potato Production, output of 1,400,281 tons82018
Tea Production, output of 1,344,827 tons22018
Tomato Production, output of 21,320,000 tons22023
Wheat Production, output of 113,290,000 metric tons22023

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