Country comparison China : India

General information

	China	India
Region:	East Asia	South Asia
Area:	9,562,910 km²	3,287,259 km²
Official language:	Chinese	Hindi
Government form:	People's republic (communist one-party system)	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1523 BC	1947 AD
Capital:	Beijing	New Delhi

Population

	China	India
Population:	1,410,929,000	1,380,004,000
Inhabitants/km²:	147.5	419.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 71 years
Average age:	Ø 38.4 years	Ø 28.7 years
Birthrate:	10.50 ‰	17.64 ‰
Deathrate:	7.10 ‰	7.27 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.43 ‰	-0.04 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	China	India
Political stability:	68	45
Civil rights:	37	46
Health:	67	35
Climate:	56	67
Cost of Living:	38	44
Popularity:	59	59

Economy

	China	India
Currency:	Renminbi Yuan (1 CNY = 100 Fen)	Indian Rupee (1 INR =100 Paise)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	6.0 %
Inflation rate:	0.98 %	6.62 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	63.15 %	28.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	59.20 %	49.70 %
Average income:	10,550 US$	1,920 US$
Corruption index:	45 (bad)	40 (bad)

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	14,722,731 M US$	10.43 M US$	2,660,245 M US$	1.93 M US$
Gross national product:	14,879,876 M US$	10.55 M US$	2,651,666 M US$	1.92 M US$
Exported goods:	2,732,365 M US$	1.94 M US$	484,691 M US$	0.35 M US$
Imported goods:	2,362,692 M US$	1.67 M US$	493,033 M US$	0.36 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,960,600 km	3.52 km	4,699,024 km	3.41 km
Railways:	68,141 km	0.05 km	68,155 km	0.05 km
Waterways:	110,000 km	0.08 km	14,500 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	6,662	0.005	1,801	0.001
Airports:	507	0.000	346	0.000

Energy balance

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5,564.00 bn kWh	3.94 m kWh	1,137.00 bn kWh	823,910.43 kWh
Energy production:	5,883.00 bn kWh	4.17 m kWh	1,386.00 bn kWh	1.00 m kWh
Energy export:	18.91 bn kWh	13,402.51 kWh	5.15 bn kWh	3,731.87 kWh
Energy imports:	6.19 bn kWh	4,383.64 kWh	5.62 bn kWh	4,070.28 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.31 bn t	7,309.69 t	2.43 bn t	1,764.14 t

Telecommunication

	China	India
International dialing:	+86	+91
Internet domain:	.cn	.in

	CHN total	CHN per 1000 inh.	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	181,908,000	129	20,052,162	15
Mobile cellulars:	1,696,356,000	1202	1,153,709,832	836
Internet server:	20,602,000	15	6,746,000	5
Internet users:	996,710,736	706	565,801,798	410
Broadband Internet:	483,549,500	343	22,950,000	17

Healthcare system

	China	India
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.31	0.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.79	0.78
Diabetes:	9.2 %	10.4 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	1.9 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	94.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	25.7 %	28.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: China and India

	China	India
Daytime temperatures:	19.6 °C	30.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.1 °C	19.9 °C
Water temperature:	18.0 °C	27.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	66 %
Rain days:	6.3	7.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	6.3

Native languages

	China	India
Chinese:	92.0 %	n/a
Hindi:	n/a	41.0 %
Bengali:	n/a	8.1 %
Telugu:	n/a	7.2 %
Marathi:	n/a	7.0 %
Tamil:	n/a	5.9 %
Urdu:	n/a	5.0 %
Gujarati:	n/a	4.5 %
Kannada:	n/a	3.7 %
Oriya:	n/a	3.2 %
Malayalam:	n/a	3.2 %
Punjabi:	n/a	2.8 %
Hakka:	1.8 %	n/a
Zhuang:	1.4 %	n/a
Assamese:	n/a	1.3 %
Maithili:	n/a	1.2 %
Mantšu:	0.9 %	n/a
Hui:	0.8 %	n/a
Yi:	0.6 %	n/a
Uighur:	0.6 %	n/a
Tujia:	0.5 %	n/a
Tibetan:	0.4 %	n/a
Mongolian:	0.4 %	n/a
Puyi:	0.2 %	n/a
Dong:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	0.2 %	5.9 %

Religions

	China	India
Hinduism:	0.1 %	79.8 %
Nondenominational:	58.5 %	n/a
Local chinese beliefs:	17.5 %	n/a
Islam:	1.7 %	13.0 %
Buddhism:	6.2 %	0.7 %
Taoism:	4.4 %	n/a
Christianity:	2.3 %	2.3 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.7 %
Jainism:	n/a	0.4 %
Bahaism:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	9.3 %	1.9 %