[commonguymd]

I thought I was clear. Half a percent of the working population. Just a quick math calculation on approximately 500 million to 600 million working age adults. Just a rough estimate.

My wife is Indian and is back there learning IT right now. I was just curious where the 4 million outsourcings' number came from. I thought it might be higher, but wasn't surprised it was that low - if accurate. Not that 4 million is a low number by any means - just not a significant amount of the workforce. Albeit, it might be a more substantial bit of the economy that .5%.

[USMMA_83]

"Major IT services companies worldwide currently employ 14% of their combined workforce in India, as they tap into the country's low-cost IT and back-office skills base. Research from ComputerWire found that the top 50 IT services companies currently employ a total of 1.25 million employees worldwide, with 173,000 of this total based in India." This is from Computer Business Review Online September 2004

[USMMA_83]

"The number of Indian professionals in the IT sector is expected to triple to more than 2 million over the next five years, and Morgan Stanley's Mumbai research center predicts that multinationals will match new jobs in Indian subsidiaries with head-count reductions elsewhere." This is from Newsweek August 2004

[Cronos]

Man -- I've seen some of those Indian women here in the UK -- oh, yeah, "Asian" women -- and they are gorgeous!