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Anders Staffe

heads Workindenmark's New Dehli office (picture above). He assures Indians who want to move to Denmark they don't have to worry about finding Indian food there.

Indian labour market facts

With 470 million people of working age, in India most figures will be large.

In 2006 there were 375 universities and 17,000 high schools accepting 9.3 million new students every year. The number of engineer students alone stands at 550,000.

But India has become best known for its IT industry. In 1990 56,000 people worked with programming and software development. Ten years later that number has risen to  284,000. There are now two million IT employees in total. 

25 million Indians live abroad, spread over 100 countries. Those with higher education have traditionally moved to the USA, while manual workers look for work in the Middle East, where some five million Indians are working. Two million Indians live in the USA and 1.7 million live in Great Britain.

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