Indian Software Developers

You are not alone as a programmer. There are 18.2 million people like you who write code for a living today around the world.

According to Evans Data, whose WOT score was dangerous low BTW, India will have more software developers than the US in four years.

By 2018, India will have 4.5 million software developers, in comparison to 4.5 million in the US. Currently, the two countries have 2.75 million and 3.6 million programmers.

India is seeing an edge in age composition, with about half of its 1.2 billion population are under 25 year old. In the next couple of decades, India will add about 110 million workers to its labor force, more than the US, China, Russia and Japan combined.

China will have 1.9 million programmers in 2018.

The Emperor Revealed His New Clothes

The Ministry of Treasure released data on number of Chinese tax payers in the discussion of adjusting exemption level. According to the data, by increasing the level from CNY 2,000 to CNY 3,500, the population of personal incoming tax paying Chinese decreases from 84 million to 24 million.

The number of merely 24 million Chinese earned more than CNY 3,500 cams as a shock to some observers. In recently years, Chinese has been known as big spenders in the western world. They raised up housing price in Canada and often clear entire store of luxurious goods on vacation. The number is certainly at odds with the spending power demonstrated by Chinese tourists.

Variation of the Chinese Population as its Percentage of the World Total

According to a post on the Tiexue (Cold Blood) Forum by zhengweiRENSHEN, the percentage of the Chinese population in the world total population has been relatively stable throughout the past 2000 years.