Friday, October 31, 2008

The Rupee

Here is an interesting statistic of Rupee, the common name of the currencies used in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Seychelles, Indonesia and Maldives (I’m ignoring the slight variations in names such as Indonesian Rupiah and Maldivian Rufiyaa as they are cognate words of Hindi Rupiya).

1584 million people (the total population of the above countries) use the currency Rupee for their daily transactions; buying day today stuff and all. This is 24% of the world’s population. That means every fourth person living in this world uses a rupee every day.

CountryPopulation
India1140
Pakistan165
Nepal28
Sri Lanka19
Mauritius1
Seychelles1
Indonesia229
Maldives1
Total1584
*Data extracted from wikipedia

See how famous the Rupee is! And we thought the Rupee was one of those not so famous currencies in the world?

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