If you were born in India
In 2023, about 1 in 6 babies on Earth was born in India: 23,219,489 births in the year, about 44 every minute (UN World Population Prospects 2024).
A baby born in India today can expect to live 72.0 years, which ranks 118 of 194 countries and regions.
The numbers
| Here | World | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babies born here | 1 in 6 | — | 1 in 36 |
| Life expectancy at birth | 72.0 | 70.2 | 79.3 |
| Women / men | 73.6 / 70.5 | — | 81.8 / 76.9 |
| Children who die before 5 | 2.8% | 3.7% | 0.6% |
| Children per woman | 1.98 | 2.87 | 1.62 |
| Live in cities | 35% | 51% | 80% |
| Income per person (PPP $) | $10,719 | $17,038 | $86,170 |
| Income inequality (Gini) | 23.0 | 34.6 | 41.8 |
| Finish primary school | 95% | 86% | 96% |
| Finish middle school | 87% | 72% | 100% |
| Enrol in university | 34% | 35% | 79% |
| Women’s age at first marriage | 21.4 | 22.7 | 27.5 |
| Men’s age at first marriage | 26.0 | 27.0 | 29.2 |
| Use the internet | 65% | 60% | 95% |
| Health costs paid out of pocket | 44% | 41% | 11% |
2,000 lives born here
We ran the 1in8b life engine 2,000 times with every baby born in India, using the same data as the game. Of those lives:
- 97%reached age 5
- 97%reached 18
- 75%reached 65
- 38%reached 80
- 75median age at death
- 92%finished primary school
- 70%finished high school
- 26%graduated from university
- 94%of adults ever married
- 1.8children on average
- 6.2%lost a child under 18
- 41%of 30-year-olds at work were farming
Simulated lives follow the national averages. Where you are born in a country, and to whom, changes them a great deal.
You don’t get to choose
In 1in8b you are born where the world’s babies are actually born. There is a 1 in 6 chance it is India.
Be born at randomSources: UN World Population Prospects 2024 (births, life tables, fertility); World Bank and ILO (income, schooling, work, marriage, health). Latest year available for each figure.