Live data from Hacker News

India Counting Down to 1B Doses

cowin.gov.in

1–10 of 124 posts

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

#5
post #2

A bit odd topic but the commas seem strange in the numbers there: >Total Vaccination Doses: 1,00,13,38,625 Is that an Indian thing?

Yes. Indians don’t usually break numbers down by the thousands.

After thousand, numbers are usually grouped by the hundreds.

So, for example, Indians usually use:

Number: Indian Term/Others 1000: Thousand/Thousand 100,000: Lac/Hundred Thousand 1,000,000: 10 Lac/Million 1,00,00,000: Crore/Ten Million

and so on…

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

#7
Please note this is total doses, i.e., adding up people who've got the first dose and the second dose, so it's double-counting people who've got both.

The more accurate number is 290 million, which is how many people have got both doses. Our population is 1.3 billion, so we're still a long way away.

https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

#8

Please note this is total doses, i.e., adding up people who've got the first dose and the second dose, so it's double-counting people who've got both. The more accurate number is 290 million, which is how many people have got both doses. Our population is 1.3 billion, so we're still a long way away. https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/

290 million fully vaccinated and 1,390 million total population. :) [1 crore = 10 million]

Re: India Counting Down to 1B Doses

#10

Please note this is total doses, i.e., adding up people who've got the first dose and the second dose, so it's double-counting people who've got both. The more accurate number is 290 million, which is how many people have got both doses. Our population is 1.3 billion, so we're still a long way away. https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/

India's population is 1.3 Billion.

26.16% of that are children. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/271315/age-distribution-...)

So, about 1 Billion require 2 doses of vaccination.

Out of that 1 Billion are almost done.

A long way to go, but an impressive journey so far.

Post reply on HN