[strken]

India has one of the most agrarian populations in the world, with a comparatively high prevalence of subsistence farming too. Its GDP per capita is maybe a tenth of Japan's.

One million is hyperbole, but Japan's more advanced economy and lower population vs India's less advanced economy and higher population is a strange comparison in some ways. The single number doesn't tell the whole story.

[geremiiah]

So you're basically talking about HDI. That's one metric. But I think equally important is also to consider the rote tech capabilities. That India still has a lot of people practicing susbistence farming and that China still has people living in caves, and that the US still has many homeless people living in tents, ... , all those aren't indicative of the rote tech capabilies of those respective countries.