Country comparison: India / Pakistan

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

General information

	India	Pakistan
Region:	South Asia	South Asia
Area:	3,287,259 km²	796,100 km²
National language:	Hindi	Urdu
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1947 AD	1947 AD
Capital:	New Delhi	Islamabad

Population

Details for India and Pakistan

	India	Pakistan
Population:	1,407,564,000	231,402,000
Inhabitants/km²:	428.2	290.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 64 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 72 years	Ø 69 years
Average age:	Ø 28.7 years	Ø 22.0 years
Birth rate:	16.57 ‰	27.97 ‰
Death rate:	7.35 ‰	7.06 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.16 ‰	-0.96 ‰

Quality of life

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

	India	Pakistan
Political stability:	53	29
Civil rights:	46	26
Health:	36	29
Climate:	62	72
Cost of Living:	45	62
Popularity:	49	65

Economy

Details for India and Pakistan

	India	Pakistan
Currency:	Indian rupee (1 INR = 100 Paise)	Pakistanian rupee (1 PKR =100 Paisa)
Unemployment rate:	6.0 %	4.4 %
Inflation rate:	5.13 %	9.50 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	28.80 %	25.79 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.70 %	33.90 %
Average income:	2,150 US$	1,470 US$
Corruption index:	60 (bad)	73 (very bad)

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,176,295 M US$	2.26 M US$	348,263 M US$	1.51 M US$
Gross national product:	3,023,424 M US$	2.15 M US$	340,809 M US$	1.47 M US$
Exported goods:	643,080 M US$	0.46 M US$	35,566 M US$	0.15 M US$
Imported goods:	717,119 M US$	0.51 M US$	76,392 M US$	0.33 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for India and Pakistan

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	6,371,847 km	4.53 km	264,175 km	1.14 km
Railways:	68,155 km	0.05 km	11,881 km	0.05 km
Harbours:	1,801	0.0013	57	0.0002
Passenger airports:	82	0.0001	34	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for India and Pakistan

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1.137 tn kWh	807,778.64 kWh	92.33 bn kWh	399,002.40 kWh
Energy production:	1.386 tn kWh	984,680.03 kWh	109.70 bn kWh	474,066.54 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	490.00 m kWh	2,117.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.46 bn t	1,745.07 t	190.57 m t	823.54 t

Telecommunication

Details for India and Pakistan

	India	Pakistan
International dialing:	+91	+92
Internet domain:	.in	.pk

	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.	PAK total	PAK per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	20,052,162	14	2,876,794	12
Mobile cellulars:	1,153,709,832	820	175,624,364	759
Internet server:	6,746,000	5	365,813	2
Internet users:	599,165,884	426	56,299,982	243
Broadband Internet:	27,560,000	20	2,944,985	13

Healthcare system

Details for India and Pakistan

	India	Pakistan
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.53	0.63
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	0.98
Diabetes:	10.4 %	19.9 %
Malaria:	5.3 %	3.4 %
Tuberculosis:	2.10 ‰	2.64 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	94.0 %
Smokers:	27.2 %	20.2 %

Climate

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

	India	Pakistan
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	30.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.2 °C	17.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	55 %
Rain days:	7.9	3.8
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	8.0

Native languages

	India	Pakistan
Punjabi:	2.8 %	48.2 %
Hindi:	41.0 %	n/a
Pashto:	n/a	13.1 %
Sindhi:	n/a	11.8 %
Saraiki:	n/a	9.8 %
Bengali:	8.1 %	n/a
Urdu:	5.0 %	7.6 %
Telugu:	7.2 %	n/a
Marathi:	7.0 %	n/a
Tamil:	5.9 %	n/a
Gujarati:	4.5 %	n/a
Kannada:	3.7 %	n/a
Oriya:	3.2 %	n/a
Malayalam:	3.2 %	n/a
Balochi:	n/a	3.0 %
Hindko:	n/a	2.4 %
Assamese:	1.3 %	n/a
Maithili:	1.2 %	n/a
Brahui:	n/a	1.2 %
other:	5.9 %	2.9 %

Religions

	India	Pakistan
Islam:	13.0 %	95.0 %
Hinduism:	79.8 %	2.0 %
Christianity:	2.3 %	1.6 %
Sikhism:	1.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.7 %	n/a
Jainism:	0.4 %	n/a
Bahaism:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	1.9 %	1.4 %

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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