Both countries are riddled with corruption: the latest Corruption Perceptions Index, from Transparency International, puts India and China at 80th among the 180 included countries (Denmark is the least corrupt and Somalia the most). In both countries, economic inequality as measured by the Gini index is very high—about 48 in India and 51 in China (compared to 25 in Denmark, 33 in the UK, and 38 in the US). And in both countries the moneyed classes compete in ostentatious consumption, collecting expensive cars and palatial residences.
