The Indian web and mobile markets by the numbers

Google India Managing Director Rajan Anandan gave a fascinating talk to our Geeks on a Plane India group this week, giving us a snap shot of the data that is driving the consumers, entrepreneurs, trends and investors in the rapidly growing Indian web and mobile markets. Anandan says: “We’re probably in 1996 in the U.S. in terms of the Internet market in India.” Here’s the stats from Anandan’s deck.

India has:

• 1.2 billion people
• The 9th largest economy in the world, with $1.7 trillion GDP
• 600 million people below the age of 25
• 22 languages
• 250 million in the consuming class — these are the folks that buy e-commerce
• 900 million mobile accounts, with 600 million unique mobile subscribers (many people have more than one account)
• 30 million PCs — it’ll be a mobile broadband world
• Average revenue per user (ARPU) is $3