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2024-05-09 23:36:08 UTC - HELPFUL
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India was poorer than Haiti under British rule, who left it with 16% literacy rate, life expectancy of 27, and 90% below poverty. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/india-britain-empire-railways-myths-gifts Today, India has a life expectancy of 70.8, literacy at 76.32%, eradicated extreme poverty, and surpassed the UK's economy (Nominal/PPP). https://www.brookings.edu/articles/india-eliminates-extreme-poverty/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/271335/literacy-rate-in-india/ https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0038129
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