No bet. When you have a pool of 1 billion people, the top 1% is still 10 million people.
It's no wonder why there are so many Indian doctors and engineers in the U.S. There's a very large number of bright people in India in the first place.
China is the same, there might be about 300 million Chinese (roughly the US population) who live in modern conditions, the rest still pretty much live like they did a hundred years ago.