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Military expenditure as share of government spending
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Military expenditure as share of government spending".
World Bank indicator MS.MIL.XPND.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.
Armed forces personnel
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Armed forces personnel".
World Bank indicator MS.MIL.TOTL.P1. 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.
Armed forces personnel share of labour force
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Armed forces personnel share of labour force".
World Bank indicator MS.MIL.TOTL.TF.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.
Access to electricity
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Access to electricity".
From roughly 60% to near-universal. On any honest reckoning this is the single largest infrastructure achievement of the period.
Electric power consumption per capita
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Electric power consumption per capita".
Still roughly a third of China's. Consumption per head is the least gameable measure of industrialisation.
Renewable energy consumption
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Renewable energy consumption".
Falling in this series is not necessarily bad — it partly reflects households switching off traditional biomass.
Renewable electricity output
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Renewable electricity output".
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.
Energy imports, net
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Energy imports, net".
Import dependence is the strategic vulnerability that most constrains Indian foreign policy.
CO2 emissions per capita
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "CO2 emissions per capita".
India's per-capita emissions remain far below the world average — the core of its position in climate negotiations.
Mobile cellular subscriptions
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Mobile cellular subscriptions".
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.
Individuals using the internet
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Individuals using the internet".
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.
Fixed broadband subscriptions
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Fixed broadband subscriptions".
India's weakest connectivity metric. Mobile-first adoption left fixed-line infrastructure far behind every peer.
Air transport, passengers carried
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Air transport, passengers carried".
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.
Air transport freight
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Air transport freight".
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.
Container port traffic
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Container port traffic".
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.
Urban population
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Urban population".
India urbanised far more slowly than every comparator. Under-urbanisation, not over-urbanisation, is the planning problem.
Urban population growth
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Urban population growth".
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.
Life expectancy at birth
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Life expectancy at birth".
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.
Infant mortality rate
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Infant mortality rate".
Roughly a two-thirds reduction since 2001 — among the strongest social gains in the dataset.
Maternal mortality ratio
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Maternal mortality ratio".
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.
Under-five mortality rate
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Under-five mortality rate".
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.
Access to basic drinking water
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Access to basic drinking water".
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.
Access to basic sanitation
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Access to basic sanitation".
The steepest improvement of any social indicator here, concentrated in 2014-2019.
Current health expenditure
highIndexed to first year = 100 — derived from "Current health expenditure".
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.