Health
Ranking on a scale of 1 to 100, in newborn survival rate:
| India |
14 |
| Afghanistan |
19 |
| Somalia |
21 |
Overall health-care index:
| India |
44.8 |
| Nepal |
50.8 |
| Bangladesh |
51.7 |
| Bhutan |
52.7 |
| Sri Lanka |
72.8 |
Sanitation
| Number of Indians who defecate in the open every day (in million) |
564 |
| Number out of every 5 persons defecating in the open worldwide who are Indians: |
3 |
| Quantum of untreated faeces introduced into open by Indians every single day (in tonnes): |
65,000 |
| Number of Airbus A380s aircraft weighing this number |
180 |
Environment
| Number of bodies cremated on various ghats of Varanasi every year |
25,000 – 30,000 |
| Wood required annually for these cremations (in tonnes): |
10,000 – 12,000 |
Deaths
| Number of people who died while travelling in local trains of Mumbai in a single year in 2016: |
3,202 |
| Number of civilians and security force personnel who died in terrorism-related incidents in India in more than six years between 2011 and May 2017: |
2,985 |
Farmers
| Number of Maharashtra state legislators on a two-week “study tour” of Australia and New Zealand, with a one-day stop-over in Singapore, in May 2017 to review farm loans: |
16 |
| Reported cost per head |
Rs 6 Lakhs |
| Number of farmers in Maharashtra who committed suicides since January 2017burdened by farm debt and crop failure: |
700 |
Politics
| Amount Uttar Pradesh government under AkhileshYadav distributed as unemployment allowance to 1,26,000 persons between 2012 and 2013, (in Rs crore) |
21 |
| Amount it spent on functions to handover these cheques(in Rs crore) |
15 |
Internet
| Peak market valuation of Yahoo! sometime in 2000, (in billion dollars): |
128 |
| Price at which it was finally bought by Verizon, US telecom giant, in July 2016 (in billion dollars) |
4.8 |
Firearms
| Number of firearms in existence worldwide,(in million): |
875 |
| Number out of these in the hands of civilians (in million): |
650 |
| Number of these with armed forces and law-enforcement authorities (in million): |
225 |
Americans
| Percentage of Americans in 2001 who said they were angry and frustrated with their government: |
42 |
| Percentage of Americans who feel the same today: |
77 |
SOURCES: 1,2,3&4 Global Burden of Disease report, May 20175,6,7&8 ‘Eliminate Open Defecation’, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Caravan magazine, May 2017 9&10 Environmental Survey Report 2015, TERI and Mokshda, a Delhi-based NGO working to reduce environmental impact of funeral pyres 11&12 RTI filed by Sameer Jhaveri and South India Terrorism Portal 13,14&15 NDTV report, May 5, 2017 16&17 Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report tabled in Uttar Pradesh Assembly on May 18, 2017 18&19 International News Reports 20,21&22 Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland 23&24 “Public Trust in Government’, by Pew Research Centre, Washington D.C., May 2017
Compiled by Anoop Babani. He is a former journalist and a founding member of The Beacon.
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