11.4% of the plant and animal species documented to exist on Earth are in India. The country ranks 7 in the world for hosting the largest number of endangered species.
With already 17.8% of world's population in India, are more species facing risks of extinction in the country?
| ASSUMPTIONS | |
| Estimated number of species in world: | 8.7 million; |
| Number of species documented and named: | 1.2 million; |
| (Source: PLOS Biology: How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean? (n.d.). Retrieved November 26, 2012, from http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001127) | |
| Total number of species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: | 19,817; |
| Number of species threatened in India: | 935; |
| (Source: IUCN Red List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Retrieved November 26, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List#cite_note-7) | |
| World population, 2011: | 6.9737 billion; |
| India' population, 2011: | 1.2415 billion; |
| (Source: World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance - Google Public Data Explorer. (n.d.). Retrieved November 26, 2012, from http://www.google.co.in/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&ctype=l&met_y=sp_pop_totl) | |