India in Pixels by Ashris
India in Pixels by Ashris

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How many people from each state have been recruited in the army from 2017 to 2019 per 1 million people?
The infographic is based on the response given by the Ministry of Defence (Shri Balashowry Vallabhaneni in the Lok Sabha - Unstarred Question #2849 on 11th March 2020)
Link: http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/173/AU2849.pdf
The data here is the number of people per 10 Lakh Population (1 Million) who have been recruited through joinindianarmy.nic.in
Himachal Pradesh has the highest per capita recruitment with 420 recruits / 1 Million Pop while the figure is the lowest for Goa with 4 recruits / 1 Million Pop
There are two key clusters that contribute the most to the army: Northwest India and Northeast India.
You can own this visualization as an NFT on Opensea here:
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Note we also recruit nationals from Nepal - 63 people per 1 Million Nepali citizen were recruited in the Indian Army in the three years.

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