47 percent of Indian children under the age of five are either malnourished or stunted. The adult literacy rate is 61 percent (behind Rwanda and barely ahead of Sudan). Even this is probably overstated, as in India, people are deemed literate who can do little more than sign their name. The enrollment of six-to-15-year-olds in school has actually declined in the last year. About 40 million children who are supposed to be in school are not. About a fifth of the population is chronically hungry; about half of the world's hungry live in India. More than a quarter of the India population lives on less than a dollar a day. India has more people with HIV than any other country in the world The 2006 UN Human Development Report, which ranks countries according to a variety of measures of human health and welfare, placed India 126th out of 177 countries, behind such not-about-to-be-superpowers as Equatorial Guinea (120), and Tajikistan (122). Only 10 percent of the entire Indian labor force works in the formal economy; of these fewer than half are in the private sector. There are 7 million Indians working in the formal manufacturing sector in India - and 100 million in China. The 1 million Indians working in IT account for less than one-half of one percent of the entire working population. In India, about a third of teachers fail to show up in schools on any given day (and, of course, are unsackable)
