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From roughly 60% to near-universal. On any honest reckoning this is the single largest infrastructure achievement of the period.

Still roughly a third of China's. Consumption per head is the least gameable measure of industrialisation.

Falling in this series is not necessarily bad — it partly reflects households switching off traditional biomass.

World Bank indicator EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

Import dependence is the strategic vulnerability that most constrains Indian foreign policy.

India's per-capita emissions remain far below the world average — the core of its position in climate negotiations.

World Bank indicator IT.CEL.SETS.P2. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

World Bank indicator IT.NET.USER.ZS. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

India's weakest connectivity metric. Mobile-first adoption left fixed-line infrastructure far behind every peer.

World Bank indicator IS.AIR.PSGR. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

World Bank indicator IS.AIR.GOOD.MT.K1. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

World Bank indicator IS.SHP.GOOD.TU. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

India urbanised far more slowly than every comparator. Under-urbanisation, not over-urbanisation, is the planning problem.

World Bank indicator SP.URB.GROW. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

World Bank indicator SP.DYN.LE00.IN. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

Roughly a two-thirds reduction since 2001 — among the strongest social gains in the dataset.

World Bank indicator SH.STA.MMRT. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

World Bank indicator SH.DYN.MORT. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

World Bank indicator SH.H2O.BASW.ZS. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

The steepest improvement of any social indicator here, concentrated in 2014-2019.

World Bank indicator SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

Among the highest in the world. Medical costs remain a leading cause of household impoverishment in India.

World Bank indicator SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.

World Bank indicator SE.ADT.LITR.ZS. History is restated by the World Bank as national accounts are revised; this series is rewritten in full on every pipeline run rather than appended to.