India By Numbers

So, this was orginally posted on my fellow fellow's blog but I read it and thought "I have to share it with my people" (that would be all of you :)). I think it gives you a very good picture of some of the great and important differences between NYC and Mumbai, India. The #'s are actually stolen from the lonely planet.

After reading this I never, ever want to hear any NYer complain about it being crowded or dirty in NYC. Check out the number of public toilets per 1 Million people....

Number of black taxis: about 40,000 (13,000 yellow cabs in NYC

Pop. Density: 29,000 people per sq. km. (10,000 ppl p.sq.km. in NYC)

Avg. Annual Income: Rs48,900 (US$1000)

#. of public toilets for every 1 million people: 17

Percentage of ppl living in slums: 55%

#. of people passing through Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus daily: 2.5 million (compared to 125,000 in Grand Central)