India vs. United States

Country India United States Leader President: Pratibha Patil President: Barack Obama Population 1,148,000,000 303,825,000 Life Expectancy 69.25 years 78.14 years Capital City New Delhi Washington, DC Largest city Mumbai (population: 12,691,800) New York City (population: 8,008,280) Human Development Index 0.609 0.95 GDP per capita $2,900 US $48,000 US Literacy Rate 61% 99% Corruption Perception Index 3.4 7.3 Percentage of Women in Parliament 9.2% 16.6% Wealthiest Citizens Mukesh Ambani ($19.5bn US) William Gates III ($40.0bn US) Unemployment Rate 6.8% 7.2% Death Penalty Legal Legal Political System federal republic Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition Independence date 15 August 1947 (from UK) 4 July 1776 (from Great Britain) Religions Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census) Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% (2007 est.) Languages Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9% note: English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 41% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language (2001 census) English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii Exports petroleum products, textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2003) External Debt $163,800,000,000 $ $12,250,000,000,000 US Exchange Rate Indian rupees (INR) per US dollar - 43.319 (2008 est.), 41.487 (2007), 45.3 (2006), 44.101 (2005), 45.317 (2004) Military Budget as percentage of GDP 2.5% 4.06% Beijing Olympics Medal Count 3 110 Location Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico Area 2,973,190 km sq 9,161,920 km sq Coastline 7,000 km 19,924 km Climate varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains