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Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering - Past years' statistics[edit]

The total number of candidates appearing in GATE (across all subjects) increased till 2013. In 2014, it decreased slightly.

Total number of candidates appearing in GATE
Year Number of candidates appearing
2014
889,156
2013
984,855
2012
686,614
2011
553,000
2010
414,000
2009
230,000
2008
180,000
Year Total number of candidates appearing Reference(s)
2014 889,156 [1]
2013 984,855 [2]
2012 686,614 [3]
2011 Approximately 553,000 *
2010 Approximately 414,000 *
2009 Approximately 230,000 * [4]
2008 Approximately 170,000 to 180,000 * [4][5]

* Precise figures unavailable right now.

The following line chart shows the variation of the number of candidates appeared in the top 5 subjects, since GATE 2010:

  Electronics and Communication Engineering (EC)
  Computer Science and Information Technology (CS)
  Mechanical Engineering (ME)
  Electrical Engineering (EE)
  Civil Engineering (CE)
  All other subjects

Some information about the winners of Indian general election, 2014[edit]

Non-governmental organisations Association for Democratic Reforms and National Election Watch analysed the candidates' sworn affidavits submitted to the Election Commission of India, and presented the following and other details in their reports.[6]

Criminal background[edit]

Case-wise distribution of the 542 winners in the Lok Sabha election, 2014.[7]

  With serious criminal cases (20.66%)
  With non-serious criminal cases (13.47%)
  Without any criminal cases (65.87%)

About one-third of all winners have at least one criminal case, with some having serious criminal cases.[8]

A candidate with criminal case(s) had 13% chance of winning the election, whereas a candidate with a clean record had only 5% chance of winning. (Here, chance of winning = No. of winners in the category/ Total no. of candidates in that category.)[9]

Political party Total no. of winners No. of winners with criminal cases[10] Percentage of winners with criminal cases No. of winners with serious criminal cases*[11] Percentage of winners with serious criminal cases*
Bharatiya Janata Party 281 97 35% 61 22%
Indian National Congress 44 8 18% 3 7%
AIADMK 37 6 16% 3 8%
Shiv Sena 18 15 83% 8 44%
All India Trinamool Congress 34 7 21% 4 12%
Others 128 52 41% 33 26%
Total 542 185 34% 112 21%

* Criteria for "serious" criminal cases:[12]

  1. Offence for which maximum punishment is of 5 years or more.
  2. If an offence is non-bailable.
  3. If it is an electoral offence (for eg. IPC 171E or bribery).
  4. Offence related to loss to exchequer.
  5. Offences that are assault, murder, kidnap, rape related.
  6. Offences that are mentioned in Representation of the People Act (Section 8).
  7. Offences under Prevention of Corruption Act.
  8. Crimes against women.

Compared to the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, there is an increase of winners with criminal cases. In 2009, 158 (30%) of the 521 winners analysed had criminal cases, of which 77 (15%) had serious criminal cases.[13][14]

Financial background[edit]

Asset-wise distribution of the 542 winners in the Lok Sabha election, 2014.[15]

  Assets > 100 million (24.35%)
  Assets between 50 million and 100 million (12.92%)
  Assets between 10 million and 50 million (44.46%)
  Assets < 10 million (18.27%)

Out of the 542 winners analysed, 443 (82%) are having assets of 10 million or more. In the 2009 Lok Sabha election, out of 521 winners analysed, 300 (58%) winners had assets of 10 million or more.[16]

The average assets per winner are 147 million (in 2009, this figure was 53.5 million). The average assets per candidate are 31.6 million.

Asset range No. of candidates No. of winners[17] Percentage of candidates that won
More than 100 million 450 132 29%
50 million to 100 million 320 70 22%
10 million to 50 million 1443 241 17%
Less than 10 million 6038 99 2%
Total 8251 542 7%
Political party No. of winners Average assets per winner[18]
Bharatiya Janata Party 281 115.9 million
Indian National Congress 44 167.1 million
AIADMK 37 64.7 million
All India Trinamool Congress 34 25.1 million
Others 146 250.0 million
Total 542 147.0 million

Other details[edit]

Education-wise distribution of the 542 members in the 16th Lok Sabha.[19]

  Class 12 pass and below (23%)
  Graduate and above (75%)
  Other (2%)

Age-wise distribution of the 542 members in the 16th Lok Sabha.[20]

  25 to 50 years (37%)
  51 to 70 years (55%)
  71 years and older (8%)

Gender-wise distribution of the 542 members in the 16th Lok Sabha.[21]

  Male (89%)
  Female (11%)
Education Number of members[22]
Illiterate 1
Class 12 or below 126
Graduate or above 405
Age range Number of members[23]
15 to 50 years 203
51 to 70 years 298
71 years or older 41
Gender Number of members[24]
Female 62
Male 480

Wikipedia statistics[edit]

Language editions[edit]

Distribution of the 63,036,215 articles in different language editions (as of 26 May 2024)[25]

  English (10.8%)
  Cebuano (9.7%)
  German (4.6%)
  French (4.1%)
  Swedish (4.1%)
  Dutch (3.4%)
  Russian (3.1%)
  Spanish (3.1%)
  Italian (3%)
  Egyptian Arabic (2.6%)
  Other (51.5%)
Graph of the 20 largest language editions of Wikipedia
(in number of articles, as of 26 May 2024)[26]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

English 6,827,451
Cebuano 6,117,643
German 2,912,947
French 2,613,932
Swedish 2,585,496
Dutch 2,158,997
Russian 1,981,170
Spanish 1,955,175
Italian 1,865,288
Egyptian Arabic 1,623,574
Polish 1,616,561
Chinese 1,421,084
Japanese 1,416,699
Ukrainian 1,324,802
Vietnamese 1,293,455
Waray 1,266,451
Arabic 1,233,966
Portuguese 1,125,572
Persian 1,003,242
Catalan 752,456

Assessment of articles' quality and importance[edit]

Quality-wise distribution of over 4.8 million articles and lists on the English Wikipedia, as of 27 February 2015[27]

  Featured articles (0.11%)
  Featured lists (0.04%)
  A class (0.03%)
  Good articles (0.48%)
  B class (2.05%)
  C class (3.98%)
  Start class (25.69%)
  Stub class (54.07%)
  Lists (3.49%)
  Unassessed (10.07%)

Importance-wise distribution of over 4.8 million articles and lists on the English Wikipedia, as of 27 February 2015[27]

  Top importance (0.91%)
  High importance (3.21%)
  Mid importance (12.31%)
  Low importance (49.24%)
  ??? (34.34%)
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
Top importance
High importance
Mid-importance
Low importance
???
  •   Featured articles
  •   Featured lists
  •   A-class articles
  •   Good articles
  •   B-class articles
  •   C-class articles
  •   Start-class articles
  •   Stub articles
  •   Lists
  •   Unassessed articles and lists

[Note: The table above (prepared by the Wikipedia Version 1.0 Editorial Team) is automatically updated, but the bar-chart and the two pie-charts are not auto-updated. In them, new data has to be entered by a Wikipedia editor (i.e. user).]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ http://www.gate.iitb.ac.in/gate2013/gate-2013-result-statistics/
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