Country comparison: India / South Korea

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for India and South Korea. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	India	South Korea
Region:	South Asia	East Asia
Area:	3,287,259 km²	100,339 km²
National language:	Hindi	Korean
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1947 AD	1948 AD
Capital:	New Delhi	Seoul

Population

Details for India and South Korea

	India	South Korea
Population:	1,407,564,000	51,745,000
Inhabitants/km²:	428.2	515.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 72 years	Ø 87 years
Average age:	Ø 28.7 years	Ø 43.2 years
Birth rate:	16.57 ‰	5.30 ‰
Death rate:	7.35 ‰	5.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.16 ‰	2.63 ‰

Quality of life

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

	India	South Korea
Political stability:	52	84
Civil rights:	46	77
Health:	36	92
Climate:	62	56
Cost of Living:	45	42
Popularity:	49	41

Economy

Details for India and South Korea

	India	South Korea
Currency:	Indian rupee (1 INR = 100 Paise)	South Korean won (1 KRW =100 Chon)
Unemployment rate:	7.7 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	5.13 %	2.50 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	28.80 %	86.98 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.70 %	33.20 %
Average income:	2,150 US$	35,110 US$
Corruption index:	60 (bad)	37 (moderate)

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,176,295 M US$	2.26 M US$	1,810,956 M US$	35.00 M US$
Gross national product:	3,023,424 M US$	2.15 M US$	1,816,733 M US$	35.11 M US$
Exported goods:	643,080 M US$	0.46 M US$	771,202 M US$	14.90 M US$
Imported goods:	717,119 M US$	0.51 M US$	698,103 M US$	13.49 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for India and South Korea

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	6,371,847 km	4.53 km	100,428 km	1.94 km
Railways:	68,155 km	0.05 km	4,111 km	0.08 km
Waterways:	14,500 km	0.01 km	1,600 km	0.03 km
Harbours:	1,801	0.0013	1,904	0.0368
Passenger airports:	82	0.0001	15	0.0003

Energy balance

Details for India and South Korea

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1.137 tn kWh	807,778.64 kWh	507.60 bn kWh	9.81 m kWh
Energy production:	1.386 tn kWh	984,680.03 kWh	526.00 bn kWh	10.17 m kWh
Energy export:	5.15 bn kWh	3,658.80 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	5.62 bn kWh	3,990.58 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.46 bn t	1,745.07 t	610.79 m t	11,803.87 t

Telecommunication

Details for India and South Korea

	India	South Korea
International dialing:	+91	+82
Internet domain:	.in	.kr

	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.	KOR total	KOR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	23,773,751	17	23,213,189	449
Mobile cellulars:	1,154,046,584	820	72,855,492	1408
Internet server:	6,746,000	5	315,697	6
Internet users:	605,252,452	430	50,488,162	976
Broadband Internet:	27,560,000	20	22,944,268	443

Healthcare system

Details for India and South Korea

	India	South Korea
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.53	12.43
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	2.37
Diabetes:	10.4 %	6.9 %
Malaria:	5.3 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis:	2.10 ‰	0.44 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	81.0 %
Smokers:	27.2 %	20.8 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: India and South Korea

	India	South Korea
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	18.3 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.2 °C	10.0 °C
Water temperature:	27.3 °C	12.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	69 %
Rain days:	7.9	6.8
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	6.2

Native languages

	India	South Korea
Korean:	n/a	99.9 %
Hindi:	41.0 %	n/a
Bengali:	8.1 %	n/a
Telugu:	7.2 %	n/a
Marathi:	7.0 %	n/a
Tamil:	5.9 %	n/a
Urdu:	5.0 %	n/a
Gujarati:	4.5 %	n/a
Kannada:	3.7 %	n/a
Malayalam:	3.2 %	n/a
Oriya:	3.2 %	n/a
Punjabi:	2.8 %	n/a
Assamese:	1.3 %	n/a
Maithili:	1.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	5.9 %	0.0 %

Religions

	India	South Korea
Hinduism:	79.8 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	n/a	43.3 %
Christianity:	2.3 %	31.6 %
Buddhism:	0.7 %	24.2 %
Islam:	13.0 %	n/a
Sikhism:	1.7 %	n/a
Jainism:	0.4 %	n/a
Bahaism:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	1.9 %	0.9 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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