Interesting Indian Economy and Industries numbers
- No. of Credit card issued in the country : 18 million (as of March 2012).
- India has the world's third largest Internet users with over 100 million users (of whom 40 million use the internet via mobile phones) as of December 2010.
- India has over 700 million mobile phone connections.
- only 50,000 of the 600,000 villages have bank branches.
- Since the year of 1969 till the year of 2010, the average inflation rate in India was 7.99 percent.
- The emerging markets like India will grow at 5.9 percent in this fiscal year 2011. The developed markets are growing at the rate of 1.6 percent.
- Currently, in India only two million people (0.2 % of the total population of 1 billion) are covered under Mediclaim, whereas in developed nations like USA about 75 % of the total population are covered under some insurance scheme.
- Weddings accounted for 50 percent of the Indian jewelry market
- India accounts for only half a percent of the global luxury market at $846 million. Greater China, on the other hand, accounts for 10 per cent of the global market at $17 billion.
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