Why is Tibet much richer than India?
in 2013:
India GDP per capita 1499 USD
Tibet: 4630 USD
From
Income in India which has an easier to read picture
List of Indian states by GDP
according to the data, the richest state in India is Delhi and its GDP per capita is around $3000.
For Indian Himalayan states which are near Tibet, the GDP per capita are just hundreds of dollar.
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"Tibet is the among the poorest province in China in terms of GPD per capita. But even that figure has been uphold artificially through external effort. Majority of Tibet's 3 million residents (0.2% of China's population) are devoted buddhist, who spend majority of their time praying and pilgrimage and generate little economic output. To mitigate this problem, the CPC has ordered all other province to spend 0.1% of their GDP to assist Tibet every year. This amounts to huge amount of money flowing into Tibet every year. Those money are mostly spent on infrastructure and education.
In Tibet, the education is free from kinder-garden all the way to the University level. On average each resident in Tibet receive additional subsidy of 6000 US dollar per year from the national budget. The average salaries in Tibet is one of the highest in all of Chinese provinces. With China getting richer day by day, huge amount of investment and wealth are pouring into the area. So the gap between Tibet and India is only going to become wider in the near future."