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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Our real ranking: Highest statue in the world -- and other sad tales of rising India -Kanti Bajpai

Our real ranking: Highest statue in the world -- and other sad tales of rising India -Kanti Bajpai

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published Published on Nov 4, 2018   modified Modified on Nov 4, 2018
-The Times of India blog

Apparently, we should be proud that India has the highest statue in the world – taller than anything the US and China possess. Poor Sardar Patel – his memory invoked in such a schoolboy way. A giant leader, with all his strengths and weaknesses, represented by a monstrous metal emblem of rising India.

As we think about the tallest statue in the world, we should also remember the other rankings we own. Here are some health snapshots. India’s life expectancy, in one estimate, is low enough to put us at 164th out of 224 nations – in our region only Pakistan ranks worse. In 2016, India had the highest incidence of tuberculosis and the largest number of cases of multi-drug resistant TB. Three years ago, India and Nigeria accounted for 40% of under-5 diarrhoeal deaths. Plus, 60% of new leprosy cases globally are in India.

Despite stellar economic growth over the past 20 years, the Global Hunger Index ranked India 103rd out of 119 countries. In 2017, we recorded the highest number of malnutrition cases. Not surprisingly, we also have the highest number of stunted children in the world. On average, Indian men are short in stature: we rank 90th out of 101 countries for which there was data in 2016.

India is an environmental disaster. Fourteen out of the 15 most polluted cities in the world were in our country. In 2018, two million premature deaths in India were attributed to pollution, a quarter of the world’s premature deaths in this category. India also has the highest number of children under the age of 5 dying from the effects of pollution. According to the Environmental Performance Index, India ranks 177th out of 180 countries.

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The Times of India, 3 November, 2018, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/our-real-ranking-highest-statue-in-the-world-and-other-sad-tales-of-rising-india/?fbclid=IwAR2gu6WzFQx3gEf


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