Country comparison: India / Saudi Arabia

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for India and Saudi Arabia. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
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General information

	India	Saudi Arabia
Region:	South Asia	Western Asia
Area:	3,287,259 km²	2,149,690 km²
Official language:	Hindi	Arabic
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Absolute monarchy
Independent since:	1947 AD	1932 AD
Capital:	New Delhi	Riyadh

Population

Details for India and Saudi Arabia

	India	Saudi Arabia
Population:	1,393,409,000	35,341,000
Inhabitants/km²:	423.9	16.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 71 years	Ø 77 years
Average age:	Ø 28.7 years	Ø 30.8 years
Birthrate:	17.44 ‰	16.81 ‰
Deathrate:	7.30 ‰	3.55 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.16 ‰	5.52 ‰

Quality of life

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

	India	Saudi Arabia
Political stability:	52	57
Civil rights:	45	45
Health:	35	61
Climate:	62	52
Cost of Living:	45	76
Popularity:	49	44

Economy

Details for India and Saudi Arabia

	India	Saudi Arabia
Currency:	Indian rupee (1 INR = 100 Paise)	Saudi rial (1 SAR =20 Qirshes = 100 Hallalas)
Unemployment rate:	6.0 %	7.4 %
Inflation rate:	5.13 %	3.06 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	28.80 %	44.46 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.70 %	15.70 %
Average income:	2,170 US$	22,270 US$
Corruption index:	60 (bad)	47 (moderate)

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,173,398 M US$	2.28 M US$	833,541 M US$	23.59 M US$
Gross national product:	3,027,515 M US$	2.17 M US$	775,463 M US$	21.94 M US$
Exported goods:	643,129 M US$	0.46 M US$	286,502 M US$	8.11 M US$
Imported goods:	717,831 M US$	0.52 M US$	213,016 M US$	6.03 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for India and Saudi Arabia

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	6,371,847 km	4.57 km	221,372 km	6.26 km
Railways:	68,155 km	0.05 km	5,410 km	0.15 km
Harbours:	1,801	0.0013	392	0.0111
Passenger airports:	82	0.0001	26	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for India and Saudi Arabia

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1,137.00 bn kWh	815,984.38 kWh	296.20 bn kWh	8.38 m kWh
Energy production:	1,386.00 bn kWh	994,682.80 kWh	324.10 bn kWh	9.17 m kWh
Energy export:	5.15 bn kWh	3,695.97 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	5.62 bn kWh	4,031.12 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.46 bn t	1,762.80 t	523.78 m t	14,820.88 t

Telecommunication

Details for India and Saudi Arabia

	India	Saudi Arabia
International dialing:	+91	+966
Internet domain:	.in	.sa

	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.	SAU total	SAU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	20,052,162	14	5,749,058	163
Mobile cellulars:	1,153,709,832	828	43,215,439	1223
Internet server:	6,746,000	5	145,941	4
Internet users:	599,165,884	430	34,584,389	979
Broadband Internet:	22,950,000	16	7,890,261	223

Healthcare system

Details for India and Saudi Arabia

	India	Saudi Arabia
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.53	2.24
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	2.39
Diabetes:	10.4 %	15.8 %
Malaria:	5.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis:	1.88 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	90.0 %
Smokers:	27.2 %	14.3 %

Climate

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

	India	Saudi Arabia
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	32.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.1 °C	19.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	42 %
Rain days:	7.9	1.0
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	8.8

Native languages

	India	Saudi Arabia
Arabic:	n/a	95.0 %
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
other:	5.9 %	5.0 %

Religions

	India	Saudi Arabia
Islam:	13.0 %	99.0 %
Hinduism:	79.8 %	0.1 %
Christianity:	2.3 %	n/a
Sikhism:	1.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.7 %	n/a
Jainism:	0.4 %	n/a
Bahaism:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	1.9 %	0.9 %

Data inventory and updates

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