Country comparison India : Saudi Arabia

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

	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:	48	53
Civil rights:	46	45
Health:	35	61
Climate:	67	52
Cost of Living:	45	76
Popularity:	59	55

Economy

	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

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,699,024 km	3.37 km	221,372 km	6.26 km
Railways:	68,155 km	0.05 km	5,410 km	0.15 km
Harbours:	1,801	0.001	392	0.011
Airports:	346	0.000	214	0.006

Energy balance

	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

	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

	India	Saudi Arabia
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.53	2.24
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	2.39
Diabetes:	10.4 %	15.8 %
Malaria:	5.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis:	1.9 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	90.0 %
Smokers:	27.2 %	14.3 %

Climate

Detailed info for: India and Saudi Arabia

	India	Saudi Arabia
Daytime temperatures:	30.4 °C	32.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	19.8 °C	18.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	42 %
Rain days:	7.4	1.0
Sunshine hours per day:	6.4	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 %