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Re:I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India by throwaway2037 on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:19AM (#33372484)
You wrote: <<Between these four states alone, we're talking about 40% of the country's population.>>

Google Sensei tells me:

    UP: 204.2M
    Bihar: 99.02M
    Rajasthan: 68.89M
    Madhya Pradesh: 73.34M
Not even close to 40%. Population of India is about 1.3B to 1.4B.
Re:I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India by spaceman_2020 on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:10PM (#33377963)
Those numbers are way too old. Even by the 2011 census, UP was nearly 200M with a decadal growth rate of 20% in the previous decade. Bihar was 104M with a 25% growth rate.

Even with more muted growth, current population would be 230M+ for UP and 125M+ for Bihar.