Indian equivalents

By The Economist online

Indian equivalents

Which countries match the GDP and population of India's states and territories?

How big is Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state? One way of answering the question is to take its total area: 95,000 square miles. Another way is to think of it as a country. If Uttar Pradesh were to declare independence, it would be the world's fifth most populous country (it has about the same number of residents as Brazil). Yet its economy would only be the size of Qatar, a tiny oil-rich state of fewer than 2m people. That makes it poor on a per person basis. Despite India's two decades of rapid growth, Uttar Pradesh's GDP per head is close to that of Kenya. Our interactive map presents country equivalents for India's states and territories in terms of GDP, GDP per person (in PPP terms) and population. Please play around with it and tell us what you think.

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