1. China is advancing more quickly than Pakistan and India. This is true for a wide range of indicators, including those that measure income, such as GDP per capita, or population density, or those that measure health, such as mortality rates, access to sanitation, literacy, life expectancy, or undernourishment.
2. Pakistan outperforms India in terms of education, sanitation, and access to water, and it is also ahead of India in terms of the percentage of people living below the poverty line. Regarding the percentage of people living on less than $1 a day, China and Pakistan are in a comparable situation to India, whose percentage is nearly twice as high.
3. For every 10,000 births, just 38 women die in China, compared to 230 in India and 260 in Pakistan.
4. China lags behind India and Pakistan in providing better water supplies.