Ranking among 10 status symbols for elite Indians :
Sex, violence, wars, communalism, attitudes, grim gender and ground realities ... how do we measure up?
Ranking among 10 status symbols for elite Indians :
1. Edu. Degree
2. Car
9. Job/Business
10. Membership of club
Number of times an average man has sex in a year :
Worldwide : 109
India : 92
Percentage change in the sperm count of Indian men since 1986 :
- 30
Chances that suicides committed in India on account of ‘Ideological causes/HeroWorship’ occur in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh :
50%
Number of years it would take for a rural household in Bihar to escape from incomepoverty
Scheduled caste/Scheduled tribe : 30
Non-SC/ ST : 2
Percentage of Indians who said they disapprove of politics ofviolence:
1971 : 39
Today : 65
Percentage of Indians who prefer to put their savings in:
Banks and FDs: 62
Real estate: 21
Stocks & Shares: 2
Number of wars India fought in 25 years, from1947-1972:
4
Average annual defence spending during this period(1947-72) :
Rs 600 crores
Number of wars India fought during the 25 years from 1973-1998:
0
Average annual defence spending during this period (1973-98) :
Rs11,500 crores
Number of Indians who have been displaced by dams since 1950s:
14-22 million
Percentage of total displaced people who have been resettled:
25
Change in number of people below poverty line of one dollar per day since 1990 : (inmillion)
India : +40
China : -155
Average per capita cereal consumption of Indians: ( in Kg)
1950 : 17
Today : 13
People who say they indulge in physical exercises in their spare time: ( in per cent)
Indian : 19
Chinese : 34
Percentage of Indian husbands who get upset if their wives refuse to have sex :
58
Percentage of wives who say they are forced to have sex with their husbands at times :
23
Percentage of married men who say it is alright to have sex before marriage :
For Sons : 29
For Daughters : 4
Percentage of male and female students who consider it acceptable for a woman to engagein casual sex before marriage :
58
Number of communal riots and incidents that have occurred in India since 1950 :
13,000
Percentage of Muslim victims in every communal riot :
80
Percentage of Muslims among those arrested in communal riots :
90
Percentage of police officials who say they have noticed communal bias in behaviour ofpolicemen during a communal riot :
48
Percentage of urban Indians who can be considered completely healthy and who adhere torules of good health :
15
Percentage of urban Indians who are overweight :
65
Number of judges recommended by Law Commission per million population in 1987:
50
Number of judges per million population:
10.5
Cases pending in Indian courts:
25 million
Number of years it would take Indian courts to clear existing backlog if they stoptaking new cases:
324
Percentage of schools in India which are without drinking water facilities :
58
Percentage of schools in India that have functioning toilets :
11
Percentage of schools in India which have leaking roofs :
66
Percentage of India’s total Viagra-like drugs sold in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh :
33
Percentage of India’s total Viagra-like drugs used by men in the age group of35-55 :
75
Number of men who underwent vasectomy for family planning (in million) :
1961 : 0.06
1999 : 0.07
Number of women who underwent sterilisation for family planning (in million) :
1961 : 0.10
1999 : 30.2
Percentage of students who say they have already experienced pre-marital sex :
Male Students : 25
Female Students : 20
Ratio of Uttar Pradesh population to entire population of Pakistan :
1:1
Out of 100 persons living on the Earth, Three are from Uttar Pradesh
Percentage of Indian married women who need permission to go to themarket:
68
Percentage of Indian married women who do not have any access to money which they canuse as they wish:
40