India's population is globally notorious. But our human-power isn't something the world ought to be mocking. And we have numbers to prove just that! Be it the phone-addicted internet population or the angrezi mein badbad karne wale, Indians easily make for large numbers that put the rest of the world to shame. Percentages matter, boss. No wonder we aim for 99.9% in exams. We give you 10 instances where numbers revealed the state of our nation (some we're quite proud of!):
Internet penetration in the country may not have crossed 16% of the population yet, but in absolute numbers this percentage works out to nearly 10 times the population of the continent Australia. Source: Wikipedia.
Continent? Now, that's just embarrassing.
In 2011, India's Muslim population was 177 million which is just a stone's throw away from Pakistan's 178 Million. Source: Wikipedia.
Secular country zindabad!