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Demographic Showdown

🇮🇳 India vs 🇨🇳 China

Three centuries of comparative human progress from 1800 to the 2020s and projections through 2100. Sources: UN WPP, World Bank, Maddison Project.

🇮🇳

India

Living Conditions Cohort Score (2020s)
85.1/100
Leads in 4 dimensions

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🇨🇳

China

Living Conditions Cohort Score (2020s)
91.6/100
Leads in 20 dimensions

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Full 25-Dimension Head-to-Head Comparison (2020s)

Every tracked demographic, economic, healthcare, and educational metric between India and China.

Dimension 🇮🇳 India 🇨🇳 China Leader Historical Trend
Life Expectancy at Birth years 70.7 78.1 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Income per Person (GDP per capita, PPP) intl-$ 8,613.1 22,192.2 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Child Mortality (under 5) per 1,000 births 29.7 6.6 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Years of Schooling years 6.7 8.0 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Children per Woman births 2.0 1.1 🇮🇳 India Global map →
Living in Cities % 34.9 65.2 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Internet Access % 57.3 82.2 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Electricity at Home % 98.9 100.0 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Homicide Rate per 100,000 2.9 0.5 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Annual Working Hours hours/year 2,100.0 2,150.0 🇮🇳 India Global map →
Average Male Height cm 166.0 172.0 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Extreme Poverty % 5.3 0.0 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Suicide Rate per 100,000 12.8 8.9 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Infant Mortality per 1,000 births 25.8 4.8 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Female Life Expectancy years 72.3 81.0 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Male Life Expectancy years 69.2 75.3 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Alcohol Consumption liters/year 4.1 4.6 🇮🇳 India Global map →
Population 65+ % 6.9 13.9 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Adult Overweight % 28.5 36.5 🇮🇳 India Global map →
Basic Drinking Water Access % 94.4 95.3 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Physicians per 1,000 people 0.7 2.7 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Electricity Use per Person kWh/year 1,032.9 5,936.4 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Adult Literacy % 77.6 96.7 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Smoking Prevalence % 24.2 23.1 🇨🇳 China Global map →
Primary School Completion % 95.1 — Tied Global map →

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