Should Indians hold their obsession with Pakistan?

Indians are always very much obsessed with Pakistan and vice versa. Every time people from both country are comparing with each other. 

Let's see where India and Pakistan stands today.


1. Population (Dec 2020)

India - 1.387 billion

Pakistan - 223.02 million

India is roughly 6.2 times bigger than Pakistan.


2. GDP PPP (2019, World Bank)

India - $ 9.612 trillion

Pakistan - $1.058 trillion

India is roughly 9 times bigger than Pakistan.


3. GDP per capita (UNCTAD data)

India - $2239

Pakistan - $1193


4. Military Expenditure (SIPRI Report)

India - $71.1 billion (2.4% of GDP)

Pakistan - $10.3 billion (3.9% of GDP)


5. Forex Reserve held by Central bank(11 Dec 2020)

India - $ 578.57 billion

Pakistan - $ 13.3 billion

India is roughly 45 times bigger than Pakistan. 


6. Merchandise Export (2019)

India - $ 322 billion

Pakistan - $ 20.8 billion

India is roughly 15 times bigger than Pakistan.


7. Services Export (2019)

India - $214.36 billion

Pakistan - $ 5.78 billion

India is roughly 37 times bigger than Pakistan.


8. Installed Power Capacity

India - 375 GW

Pakistan - 37.4 GW

India is roughly 10 times bigger than Pakistan.


9. Motor Vehicle Production (OICA data, 2018)

India - 5.17 million

Pakistan - 270 thousand

India is roughly 19 times bigger than Pakistan.


10. Total length of Metro System (as of Dec 2020)

India - 682 km (13 cities)

Pakistan - 28 km (1 city)

India is roughly 24 times bigger than Pakistan.


11. No. of Tech Unicorns (valuation more than a billion)

India - 35 (11 new unicorns added in 2020)

Pakistan - 0


12. No. of companies listed in Forbes Global 2000 list (2019)

India - 57

Pakistan - 0


13. Human Development Index or HDI (UNDP Standard, 2017)

India - 0.640

Pakistan - 0.562

Indian state with lowest HDI Bihar (0.576) has better HDI than Pakistan.


14. Pharmaceutical Export (FY20)

India - $ 20.5 billion

Pakistan - $ 217 million

India is roughly 94 times bigger than Pakistan.


15. Listed companies with Market Capitalization (end of 2018)

India - $ 2083 billion

Pakistan - $ 92 billion

India is roughly 23 times bigger than Pakistan. 2 Indian stock exchanges namely BSE and NSE featured in World's Top 12 in terms of Market Capitalization.


16. Steel and Cement Production

Steel (2019)

India - 111.2 Million metric tonnes

Pakistan - 3.3 million metric tonnes

India is roughly 34 times bigger than Pakistan.

Cement (FY20)

India - 329 Million metric tonnes

Pakistan - 47.8 Million metric tonnes


17. Highest Grossing Film 

India -  Dangal ($ 311 million)

Pakistan - Jawani Phir Nehi Aani 2 ($ 4.35 million)


18. Space Sector

India - Out of 116 successful satellites launched by India, 80 of them are launched from Indian rockets. India also launched whooping 328 foreign satellites.

India (ISRO) are among 6 nations with multiple satellite launch capability, self developed cryogenic engine, operates extra-terrestrial probes (Mars Mission, Moon Mission), Global or Regional Navigation system and recoverable satellite capability (RLV).

Pakistan - Pakistan is reliant on foreign nations like China, Russia in making satellites and launching them into space.


19. Highest ranked Supercomputer based on computational power

India - PARAM Siddhi AI (Cores - 41664, Rmax - 4619 TFlops/sec, Rpeak- 5267.1 TFlops/sec)

Pakistan - ScREC (Cores - 256, Rpeak - 132 TFlops/sec)

The Indian one has 40 times more computational power than the other.


20. No. of people with access of Electricity (World Bank, 2018)

India - 95.2% 

Pakistan - 71.1%


21. Entrepreneurship (Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list 2020)

India - 69 out of 300

Pakistan - 5 out of 300


22. Total revenue of IT Sector (FY20)

India - $191 billion

Pakistan - $ 4.1 billion

India is roughly 47 times bigger than Pakistan.


23. No. of passengers on airlines in 2018 (ICAO data) -

India - 164.04 million

Pakistan - 6.88 million

India is roughly 24 times bigger than Pakistan.


24. QS Asian University Ranking 2020 (Total 550)

India - 96 (8 in top 100)

Pakistan - 29 (1 in top 100)


25. Total FDI equity inflow (UNCTAD Data 2019)

India - $50.55 billion

Pakistan - $2.21 billion

India is roughly 23 times bigger than Pakistan.

Moral:  Suppose you are mediocre student in class, to develop yourself you always compare yourself with the topper. How much you have to work hard to reach there. But the same amount of development is not possible if you are obsessed with how good you are with the underachievers of your class. For example, China developed a scientific method called "Comprehensive National Power (综合国力)" (CNP) to track their progress on soft power (economic, cultural, foreign affairs) and hard power (military, science and technology, economic wealth). CNP or Zonghe Guoli was introduced by Deng Xiaoping when he advised scholars to analyze and project the future security environment as a supplement to the study of China’s strategic defense in the new millennium.  From the Chinese perspective, the assessment of CNP has two main objectives: to calculate the relative capabilities of major powers as to who would win or lose if there is a war and to evaluate the potential of its strategic partners as well as adversaries. Today, the same China is competing with US in every field. The trade war between them is initiating a cold war.

N.B. 1 billion = 1000 million = 100 crore ; FY20 - Fiscal Year 2019-20 




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