Country comparison India : Pakistan

General information

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

Population

	India	Pakistan
Population:	1,380,004,000	220,892,000
Inhabitants/km²:	419.8	277.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 66 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 71 years	Ø 68 years
Average age:	Ø 28.7 years	Ø 22.0 years
Birthrate:	17.64 ‰	27.84 ‰
Deathrate:	7.27 ‰	6.89 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.04 ‰	-0.92 ‰

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:	45	23
Civil rights:	46	26
Health:	35	31
Climate:	67	72
Cost of Living:	44	62
Popularity:	58	41

Economy

	India	Pakistan
Currency:	Indian Rupee (1 INR = 100 Paise)	Pakistanian Rupee (1 PKR =100 Paisa)
Unemployment rate:	6.0 %	4.4 %
Inflation rate:	6.62 %	9.50 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	28.67 %	25.78 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.70 %	33.90 %
Average income:	1,920 US$	1,270 US$
Corruption index:	40 (bad)	28 (very bad)

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,660,245 M US$	1.93 M US$	262,610 M US$	1.19 M US$
Gross national product:	2,651,666 M US$	1.92 M US$	280,504 M US$	1.27 M US$
Exported goods:	484,691 M US$	0.35 M US$	35,516 M US$	0.16 M US$
Imported goods:	493,033 M US$	0.36 M US$	76,341 M US$	0.35 M US$

Infrastructure

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,699,024 km	3.41 km	263,775 km	1.19 km
Railways:	68,155 km	0.05 km	11,881 km	0.05 km
Harbours:	1,801	0.001	57	0.000
Airports:	346	0.000	151	0.001

Energy balance

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1,137.00 bn kWh	823,910.43 kWh	92.33 bn kWh	417,986.44 kWh
Energy production:	1,386.00 bn kWh	1.00 m kWh	109.70 bn kWh	496,622.04 kWh
Energy export:	5.15 bn kWh	3,731.87 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	5.62 bn kWh	4,070.28 kWh	490.00 m kWh	2,218.28 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.43 bn t	1,764.14 t	208.37 m t	943.31 t

Telecommunication

	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	15	2,876,794	13
Mobile cellulars:	1,153,709,832	836	175,624,364	795
Internet server:	6,746,000	5	365,813	2
Internet users:	565,801,798	410	37,708,313	171
Broadband Internet:	22,950,000	17	2,523,027	11

Healthcare system

	India	Pakistan
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.53	0.63
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	0.98
Diabetes:	10.4 %	19.9 %
Malaria:	5.3 %	3.4 %
Tuberculosis:	1.9 %	2.6 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	93.0 %
Smokers:	28.1 %	20.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: India and Pakistan

	India	Pakistan
Daytime temperatures:	30.4 °C	30.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	19.9 °C	17.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	55 %
Rain days:	7.4	3.8
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	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 %