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India has the essential ingredients to be a leading exporter of talent: a mass of young people and first-class higher education.
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Having just surpassed China as the world’s most populous country,
Of the 281 million migrants spread around the globe today – generally defined as people who live outside the country where they were born – almost 18 million are Indians, according to the latest United Nations estimates from 2020. Mexican migrants, the second-biggest group, number just 11.2 million. Chinese abroad number 10½ million.
