In which categories does India rank among the top five countries of the world?

Parag Tripathi
Parag Tripathi, A "General" Indian !!
India is among top 5 countries in many areas :
Economy : GDP (PPP) - India ranks 3rd among the World and 2nd in Asia Pacific with a GDP of $8.6 Trillion.
Foreign Remittances : Since we are good at producing people & Ranked#2 in population, we send people to work outside India and in turn Rank#1 in foreign remittances in the world which is $65.5 Bn in 2016.
Agriculture, Fisheries & Livestock :
With seventh Largest area in the world and second largest Cultivated Land :
Rank#1 : Milk, Banana, Bean, Chikpea, Cows, Ginger, Jute, Lemon & Mango Production.
Rank#2: Black Pepper, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Cardamom, Cotton, Garlic, Goat, Lentil, Onion, Potato, Peanut, Rice, Silk, Sugarcane, Tea & Wheat Production.
Rank#3 : Coconut, Fish, Orange, Saffron, Sheep and Tomato production.
Rank#5 : Apple , Chicken & Soyabean production.
India is having Highest number of Wild Tigers
Metals & Minerals :
Rank#1 : Thorium
Rank#3 : Pig Iron, Steel
Rank#4 : Coal
Rank#5 : Aluminium
Rank#6 : Manganese, Zinc
Clean Energy Production :
Rank#5 : Wind Energy
Space Missions :
Fifth country to reach on moon and Fourth country on Mars but first to reach Mars successfully in its maiden attempt.
First country to find water on moon.
Transport Networks :
Road : India ranks Second among the Road (Both paved & unpaved) network size with 54.72 Lac Kms of road network.
Rail - India ranks third among the Rail network size with 1.15 Lac Kms of rail network.
Armed Forces : Rank#4 India is fourth strongest country in world in terms of Armed forces.
Language : Rank#1 in Hindi and Rank#2 in English speaking with 10.35% English speakers.
Automobile: Rank#6 in Motor Vehicle Production as per 2015 Statistics, just missed though to qualify for this question but India is the second fastest growing automobile market (after China) in the World.
Sports : Though India have no officially declared National Sport, the rankings in different Sports as on date are :
Cricket : Test - #1 | ODI - #3 | Twenty20 -#2 Women's Championship #4
Chess : #5
Hockey : #6
Kabaddi : #1 Indian Women and Men team won all the golds in Asian, South Asian and World cup tournaments of Kabaddi till date.
Movies : Rank#1 in movies produced every year and number of admissions and Rank#6 in terms of Box office Market.
Quora : Rank#2 in Quora usage
Politics : The largest liberal democracy in the world.
Internet and Mobile phones : Rank#2 , Second highest in terms of mobile phone and Internet users.
Television Broadcast Stations : 4th Highest in the world.
Country of Youth : 28% population is 10–24 years of Age, which is again World’s #1
Religion : Largest Hindu population, Largest Zoroastrian population, Largest Bahá'í Faith in the world, Largest Jain population, Largest Sikh Population, 9th Largest Buddhist population, 2nd Largest Muslim population.
Whisky Consumption : Having achieved such high ranks in almost every field, when it comes to celebration - India consumes almost as much whisky as the rest of the world put together, making it #1 in this field also.
JAI HIND !!
Edit :
A great co-incidence happened with this answer which I felt worth sharing on this Republic day:

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