India Atlas: the Indian economy, from its official figures
9.92%
Wholesale prices in August were 9.92% higher than a year earlier, up from 9.78% in July.
Wholesale price inflation, year on year, per cent, on the 2022-23 base (provisional for the latest months). Read the guide
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Every series on the site, 8,20,428 of them, each traced to its release.
The sheet
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Fourteen pulses of the Indian economy, on one sheet
Every monthly and quarterly headline since 2016, each on its own scale and shaded against its own average: darker above it, lighter below. The last twelve months are in blue; the dot is the latest reading.
The guides
30 guides in 6 families. With their charts
Every guide
Prices
What things cost, and how fast that changes
3 guides
Output and enterprise
What India makes, and who makes it
6 guides
- GDP 7.8% real GDP growth, year on year, Apr to Jun 2026 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- Industrial production 8.0% industrial output growth, year on year, August 2026 Vintage Sep 2026
- Factories and enterprises 2.1 lakh factories in operation, 2023-24 Vintage 2023-24 rounds
- Manufacturing 13.5% manufacturing's share of GDP, 2025 WDI vintage 13 Jul 2026
- Services 54.0% services' share of gross value added, 2025-26 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- State economies 9.3 times income per person, richest state against poorest, 2024-25 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
Money and markets
Banks, credit, savings, debt, budgets and markets
8 guides
- Where Indians keep their money ₹158.1 lakh crore households' bank deposits, March 2026 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- How much India owes 188.6% debt of households, companies and government, % of GDP (BIS estimate), Jan to Mar 2026 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- Interest rates 5.50% the RBI's policy repo rate, from 7 October 2026 Vintage 7 Oct 2026
- Bank credit and money 19.1% growth of bank credit, year on year, August 2026 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- How Indians pay 2,366 crore UPI payments made in the month, July 2026 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
- India's banks 1.8% banks' bad loans, gross NPAs as a share of gross advances, March 2026 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
- Government budgets and debt 26.8% the Centre's fiscal deficit so far this year, as a share of the year's budget estimate, April to July 2026 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
- Savings, markets and companies 6.4% households' net financial saving, share of the quarter's GDP, Jan to Mar 2026 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
India and the world
Trade, and the balance with the rest of the world
2 guides
People and work
Work, spending, schooling, health and population
8 guides
- Jobs 5.0% unemployment rate, age 15 and over, August 2026 Vintage Aug 2026
- Household spending ₹4,122 rural spending per person per month, 2023-24 Vintage 2023-24 round
- Higher education 4.3 crore students enrolled in higher education, 2021-22 Vintage 2021-22 round
- Women and men 917 girls born for every 1,000 boys (Sample Registration System), 2021-23 (the years averaged) Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- Family health 67.1% children aged 6 to 59 months with anaemia, NFHS-5, 2019-21 NFHS-5, 2019-21
- Poverty and inequality 2.6% of Indians below $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), HCES 2023-24 PIP release 22 Sep 2026
- Population 143.8 crore people in India, UN estimate, 2023 WPP 2024, vintage 11 Jul 2024
- Work, as the ILO counts it 32.4% women aged 15+ in the labour force, ILO estimate, 2024 ILOSTAT vintage 2 Dec 2025
Land, food and energy
Farms, energy and climate
3 guides
- Renewable energy 291.7 GW renewable power capacity installed, July 2026 Vintage Jul 2026
- Climate and heat +0.63°C India's temperature against the 1991-2020 average for the month, August 2026 Vintage Aug 2026
- What India grows 357.7 million tonnes foodgrains harvested in the crop year (final estimate), 2024-25 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
States and union territories
A page for each of the 28 states and 8 union territories: how it earns, spends, works, borrows and falls ill.
36 economies, one page each
Consumer price inflation in August 2026, year on year, per cent. Each tile sits roughly where its state lies, and opens its profile.
Fastest
- Telangana6.3%
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu6.2%
- Tamil Nadu5.9%
- Puducherry5.8%
- Madhya Pradesh5.5%
Slowest
- Mizoram2.4%
- Delhi2.6%
- Meghalaya2.8%
- Nagaland2.9%
- Arunachal Pradesh3.1%
Learn
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