India among Top 15 Vehicle Manufactures: UNIDO
The United Nations Industrial Development organisation (UNIDO) has ranked India among the world's top 15 motor vehicle producers. Japan, USA and Mexico have been ranked top three countries in the International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2008 list of UNIDO.
India with its burgeoning auto industry has scored over countries like Brazil and China to bag the 12th rank. According to the yearbook, India occupies the fourth position in the leading developing countries category of motor vehicles manufactures. The list is topped by Mexico, South Korea and Iran. The other countries making the list are Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and China.
India also figures among the world's top 15 producers of chemicals and chemical products, electric machinery and apparatus, basic metals (iron and steel, non - ferrous metals), coke, refined petroleum products (glass and glass product, cement, ceramic products), machinery and equipment, leather products and footwear and textiles, the report revealed. As per the UNIDO report, India also ranks fifth among world's top 15 textile producer countries. The main purpose behind UNIDO's yearbook is to provide statistical indicators.
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