India 2000 - Perspectives of a Near Future

Abstract

India 2000 - a country with about one billion people, one of the greatest industrial nations of the world two thirds of whose population will still live in the villages. But this India will probably have more large cities than all of Europe, about a dozen of these cities will have several millions of inhabitants. Poverty will not have been vanquished by the year 2000, about one half of India's population will still live below the poverty line. Indicators which measure the general standard of living elsewhere will remain irrelevant for India. Whereas in the industrial countries of the West there is even today one car for every three persons, India will have perhaps one car for every 500 persons by the year 2000.