See this.
As one can see here, India’s economic prosperity is not as far behind other countries (in purchasing power parity terms) as its record is in cadaver donation – one twentieth that of Thailand. But this is changing rapidly in Tamil Nadu. In the first quarter of 2009, the state has had 14 cadaver donors that works out to a rate of 0.8 per million population per year, several times that of the country as a whole.