If you are taking per-capita as the power scale of country then of course countries like finland etc will be more powerful than china, india etc.
Even US is powerful not only because of its per-capita, but because of its size,number of population,military strength,GDP,technology and overall influence like political,soft power etc.
For your information India is not like india in 80's but now becomes 7th largest economy(GDP-nominal),3rd largest in GDP PPP, largest arms importer,fastest growing major economy,one the largest kee world products like cement,steel,coal,medicines etc and largest software outsourcing and one of the largest in space power etc.We also have poor because its almost 1.25 billion people and a big country.India also have one of the world's largest road and rail networks.India also a largest gold importer in the world.India is a member in G20,BRICS etc.India is the 3rd largest producer of electricity.
Now you can compare where is pakistan in all above parameters.Because all above factors India is having much weightage in world stage.Every year pass by, the gap between india and pakistan increasing.In world stage money,power and influence matters....