Country comparison: India / Philippines

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

General information

	India	Philippines
Region:	South Asia	Southeast Asia
Area:	3,287,259 km²	300,000 km²
National language:	Hindi	Tagalog, English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1947 AD	1946 AD
Capital:	New Delhi	Manila

Population

Details for India and the Philippines

	India	Philippines
Population:	1,425,776,000	113,880,000
Inhabitants/km²:	433.7	379.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 66 years	Ø 67 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 69 years	Ø 71 years
Average age:	Ø 28.7 years	Ø 24.1 years
Birth rate:	16.42 ‰	21.81 ‰
Death rate:	9.45 ‰	7.31 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.12 ‰	-0.04 ‰

Quality of life

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

	India	Philippines
Political stability:	56	55
Civil rights:	46	38
Health:	30	40
Climate:	62	49
Cost of Living:	43	46
Popularity:	49	34

Economy

Details for India and the Philippines

	India	Philippines
Currency:	Indian rupee (1 INR = 100 Paise)	Philippine peso (1 PHP =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	7.3 %	2.2 %
Inflation rate:	5.13 %	3.93 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	27.24 %	37.22 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.70 %	43.10 %
Average income:	2,150 US$	3,550 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	54.27 %	43.43 %
Corruption index:	60 (bad)	67 (bad)

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,176,295 M US$	2.23 M US$	394,086 M US$	3.46 M US$
Gross national product:	3,023,424 M US$	2.12 M US$	404,238 M US$	3.55 M US$
Exported goods:	643,080 M US$	0.45 M US$	98,518 M US$	0.87 M US$
Imported goods:	717,119 M US$	0.50 M US$	152,280 M US$	1.34 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for India and the Philippines

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	6,371,847 km	4.47 km	216,387 km	1.90 km
Railways:	68,155 km	0.05 km	77 km	0.00 km
Waterways:	14,500 km	0.01 km	3,219 km	0.03 km
Harbours:	1,801	0.0013	1,805	0.0158
Passenger airports:	82	0.0001	46	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for India and the Philippines

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	3.791 tn kWh	2.66 m kWh	244.27 bn kWh	2.14 m kWh
Energy consumption:	1.229 tn kWh	862,258.76 kWh	90.93 bn kWh	798,443.34 kWh
Energy production:	1.504 tn kWh	1.05 m kWh	100.92 bn kWh	886,202.14 kWh
Energy export:	9.49 bn kWh	6,656.73 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	5.79 bn kWh	4,063.75 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.46 bn t	1,722.78 t	145.42 m t	1,276.94 t

Telecommunication

Details for India and the Philippines

	India	Philippines
International dialing:	+91	+63
Internet domain:	.in	.ph

	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.	PHL total	PHL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	23,773,751	17	5,028,018	44
Mobile cellulars:	1,154,046,584	809	163,345,244	1434
Internet server:	6,746,000	5	425,812	4
Internet users:	613,083,616	430	56,712,403	498
Broadband Internet:	27,560,000	19	9,623,734	85

Healthcare system

Details for India and the Philippines

	India	Philippines
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.53	0.99
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	1.28
Diabetes:	10.4 %	7.1 %
Malaria:	5.3 %	0.2 %
Tuberculosis:	2.10 ‰	6.50 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	76.0 %
Smokers:	27.2 %	22.9 %

Climate

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

	India	Philippines
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	31.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.2 °C	23.9 °C
Water temperature:	27.3 °C	27.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	81 %
Rain days:	7.9	11.3
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	6.3

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Philippines
India

Native languages

	India	Philippines
Hindi:	41.0 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	29.3 %
Cebuano:	n/a	23.3 %
Ilocano:	n/a	9.3 %
Hiligaynon:	n/a	9.1 %
Bengali:	8.1 %	n/a
Telugu:	7.2 %	n/a
Marathi:	7.0 %	n/a
Tamil:	5.9 %	n/a
Bicol:	n/a	5.7 %
Urdu:	5.0 %	n/a
Gujarati:	4.5 %	n/a
Waray-waray:	n/a	3.8 %
Kannada:	3.7 %	n/a
Oriya:	3.2 %	n/a
Malayalam:	3.2 %	n/a
Pampango:	n/a	3.0 %
Punjabi:	2.8 %	n/a
English:	n/a	2.2 %
Kapampangan:	n/a	2.2 %
Chinese:	n/a	1.9 %
Pangasinan:	n/a	1.8 %
Maguindanao:	n/a	1.4 %
Maranao:	n/a	1.3 %
Assamese:	1.3 %	n/a
Maithili:	1.2 %	n/a
Kinaray-a:	n/a	1.0 %
Tausug:	n/a	0.9 %
Malay:	n/a	0.7 %
Surigaonon:	n/a	0.6 %
Chavacano:	n/a	0.6 %
other:	5.9 %	1.9 %

Religions

	India	Philippines
Christianity:	2.3 %	92.5 %
Hinduism:	79.8 %	n/a
Islam:	13.0 %	5.0 %
Sikhism:	1.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.7 %	n/a
Jainism:	0.4 %	n/a
Bahaism:	0.2 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	1.9 %	2.4 %

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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