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This page features statistics extracted from the report - "World Bank funded health care, A Death Certificate for Poor" - prepared by INSAAF International. This report was released on Jan 2, 2001, by Justice Kuldeep Singh, former Chief Justice of India at Chandigarh.
January 2002: Country Statistics | India & World Bank | Punjab Statistics
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Country statistics - India
- Population : 1,027,015,247
- Categorized "very poor" :
- 525 million (2001)
- 164 million (1951)
- Population below poverty line: 36.0% (1993-94)
- currently constitute 40% of world total
- Official literacy rate
- 65.38% (2001)
- 52.21% (1991)
- Annual productivity lost to malnutrition : US$ 10 billion
- 50% of reported illnesses are preventable
- Largest pool of polio transmission in the world
- 33% of women aged 15-49 years are undernourished
- 50% of children under 3 are underweight/stunted
- More than 50% of women aged 15-49 years are anaemic
- Approx. 75% of children between 6-35 months are anaemic
- Total outstanding debt
- Rs. 1,174,363 crores (Sept 2000),
- Rs. 884,380 crores (March 1998)
- External debt increase from 1998 to 2000: 54%
- Interest paid on external debt (1994-97): US$ 12.793 billion
- Cost of medical care is the second commonest cause of rural indebtedness
- Number of Indians who can't afford medical care : 400 million
- 2% of Gross Domestic Product spent on health
- India and the World Bank
| Top- India joined WB in 1944
- Currently the largest single borrower
- Cumulative lending and development credits : US$ 47 billion (June 2000)
- From 1949-2000, 215 loans and 292 development credits totalling
- US$ 26.2 billion from IBRD
- US$ 27.2 billion from IDA
- 79 ongoing WB projects (as of June 30,2000) worth US$ 11.5 billion
- Fiscal Year 2000 lending commitments : US$ 1.8 billion comprising of
- US$ 866.5 million (loans from IBRD)
- US$ 934.3 million (credits from IDA)
- Net amount transferred from India to WB
- US$ 1,475 million (1993-98)
- US$ 478 million (Fiscal Year 1998)
- Punjab statistics
| Top- Area : 131,015 sq. km (4 divisions, 17 districts, 157 towns)
- Population : 24,289,296
- Public debt : Rs. 24,203 crores
- Rural debt : Rs. 5,700 crores
- State declared bankrupt by Reserve Bank of India in 1998
- Sex ratio (all ages) : 793 females/1000 males (2001)
- Sex ratio (age group 0-6 years) : 875 females/1000 males (1991)