New Delhi: Data released by the Lowy Institute Asia Power Index on Tuesday put India at number four in the list of the most powerful countries in the world. Amid rising challenges for India at the international level – the government of India has taken all the advanced steps to protect the boundaries of the nation and its sovereignty.
Lowy Institute has been releasing this index every year since 2018. Lowy Institute is an independent think tank that releases the Asia Power Index by assessing the resources and influence to rank the relative power of states in the Indo-Pacific region.
According to Lowy’s report, India stands at the fourth position in other measures like economic capability, military capability, resilience, and cultural influence. India performs best in future resources measures and stands behind the US and China.
India’s overall score went down by two points from 2020, standing at 37.7 out of 100. It fell short of the major power threshold and is among the 18 countries which showed a downward trend in overall scores in 2021.
As India and Japan, are lagging behind, Asia is becoming more and more ‘bipolar’ as the US and China continue to hold more power in the region.
List of top-10 most powerful countries
- United States of America
- China
- Japan
- India
- Russia
- Australia
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Indonesia
- Thailand