How is India top 5 in gdp while 81% of their population live in poverty
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Because it’s a large, very populous country – nearly 1.5 billion people (recent estimates saw them overtake China as the most populous nation last year). Their overall GDP is comparable to Japan and the UK, but with 10 or 20× the population of those, their GDP *per Capita* is relatively low.
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