Numbers of note

Rs 45,000 crore: India's space budget in the 11th Five-Year Plan. It is two-thirds of what NASA will spend in the current year alone

$10 billion (Rs 41,000 crore): The value of trade between India and Australia. It is expected to double over the next three years

128,000 MW: India's power generation capacity compared to China's capacity of 500,000 MW

$26.8 billion (Rs 1.10 lakh crore): Inward remittances from Indians working overseas in 2006-07, up from $2.1 billion in 1990-91

$500 billion (Rs 20.5 lakh crore): The estimated size of the Islamic banking industry globally

65,000: The number of bank branches in India

2.75 million: The number of DEMAT accounts that NSDL and CDSL, the country's two top securities depositories, have frozen after regulator SEBI made it mandatory for investors to submit permanent account numbers for trading in stock markets

21.09: The price-earnings (P-E) ratio of the BSE Sensex, compared to 45, 17.4 and 38.4 of the Shanghai Composite Index, Dow Jones Industrial Index and Nasdaq Composite, respectively

Rs 40,000 crore: The amount companies have mobilised through public issues in India so far in 2007.

46: India's rank on the list of SME-friendly countries. A total of 53 countries were present in the list, compiled by Fortune.

£1.5 billion (Rs 12,150 crore): The money UK's financial services industry saved through offshoring in 2006, most of it to India, according to a report by consulting firm Deloitte

Over 100,000: The number of dollar millionaires in India

271: The number of corporate jets and turboprops in India, compared to 225 aircraft owned by commercial airlines