India passes U.K. in number of science PhDs

India has been steadily building up the ranks of PhD-level scientists in the country, and now a new report shows the subcontinent has passed the U.K. in the number of scientists with doctorates. Between 1983 and 2003 the number of PhD-level scientists in India swelled from 3,886 to 6,318, well ahead of the 3,780 scientists with a PhD working in the U.K.

In order to make key inroads in drug development work, the country knows that it has to have the requisite brainpower to attract the global biotech industry. That's why the Indian government wanted to find out more about how the country stacked up compared to many developed countries as well as other countries in Asia. India is still far behind the U.S., though, where the number of science PhDs has grown to 26,891.

- read the report from the Times of India

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