India is super rich . Stop calling it a poor nation

[ButlerKing]

India's population is 1.3 billion, of course its GDP is going to be huge. GDP is important in measuring the overall size of an economy and the importance of its market, but GDP per capita is the most critical part of whether a country is developed or not.

China's PPP GDP is the world's largest but it's GDP per capita is still very low compared to many first world nations, and India is even much lower. China has been much more successful is eradicating desperate poverty and developing infrastructure however, but still has a long way to go to match the HDI levels of the US and Western Europe. India is not even close to the HDI of many Southeast Asian nations, I don't think it can get anywhere near First world nations on per capita HDI levels any time in our lifetime tbh.

True by GDP per capita India is very low but India is still a major world player. India's large market and large economy is sill the most influential after China and United States. As long as the overall GDP is huge we can't call it a poor nation. Most of the people are poor but the government and the country is definitely not poor.

[Tietar]

and GDP of Rwanda is higher than Iceland

[zhaoyun]

True by GDP per capita India is very low but India is still a major world player. India's large market and large economy is sill the most influential after China and United States. As long as the overall GDP is huge we can't call it a poor nation. Most of the people are poor but the government and the country is definitely not poor.

It's still a poor nation. You can say it's an important nation, but it's still poor in terms of the average living standard.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

You Spain is only a rubbish no.15 is not even worth comparing.


You're so low that we can't even see you

The average Indian could only dream to live in Spain or any other European nation for the record even as a homeless person. If it is so great to live in India super power then please somebody tell them to stop coming to our nations in thousands to sell their crap products in their crap stores.

[ButlerKing]

It's still a poor nation. You can say it's an important nation, but it's still poor in terms of the average living standard.

I'm aware the average person is poor in India but still to call it poor nation is misleading, the nation and the government does have enormous wealth.

India is one of the few countries who invested in space program and reached the moon and by the way the space program is praised by many nations and is better than even the U.S

A poor nation could not invest so much on Space.

[Milo]

ban all south asians from this forum, including myself

[zhaoyun]

I'm aware the average person is poor in India but still to call it poor nation is misleading, the nation and the government does have enormous wealth.

India is one of the few countries who invested in space program and reached the moon and by the way the space program is praised by many nations and is better than even the U.S

A poor nation could not invest so much on Space.

India is poor. That's the bottom line.

Because of its size, it's also important and can pool resources into programs that smaller countries cannot. Doesn't change the fact that it is poor.

[Annie999]

A nation richness is shown on how poor people live, not a bunch of rich people who holds all the money. In India there is a lot of inequality and the relation between the poor and the rich is huge, so it cannot be considered a rich nation, just a county with a big GDP.

[ButlerKing]

The average Indian could only dream to live in Spain or any other European nation for the record even as a homeless person. If it is so great to live in India super power then please somebody tell them to stop coming to our nations in thousands to sell their crap products in their crap stores.

Don't make us laugh. There is only 35,686 Indian living in Spain ( 0.07% of Spain population) and most of them are Africa of Indian origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_community_of_Spain

There's a large number of Indian in U.K because it used to be a British colony other European colonies.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Don't make us laugh. There is only 35,686 Indian living in Spain ( 0.07% of Spain population) and most of them are Africa of Indian origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_community_of_Spain

There's a large number of Indian in U.K because it used to be a British colony other European colonies.

Only? We don't want Iberia to become a mini Pakistan like the UK.