{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "payments",
  "source": "Reserve Bank of India, Payment System Indicators (via DBIE)",
  "vintage": "2026-10-10",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "releaseDate": null,
  "revisionPolicy": "Monthly figures are provisional when first printed and may be revised in later Bulletins; the RBI re-organised the table in November 2019, and the two layouts are kept apart.",
  "latestPeriod": "2026-03",
  "frequency": "annual",
  "base": "e₹ pilots (from December 2022)",
  "unit": "inr_amount",
  "coverage": "The RBI's digital rupee (e₹, a central bank digital currency) in circulation at the end of March, 2023 to 2026: retail e₹ by denomination and wholesale e₹",
  "note": "RBI Handbook of Statistics, e₹ in Circulation, via DBIE report 1404 (ACTUALS display unit). Values in rupees as on 31 March. Retail e₹ is issued in token denominations like notes. The table counts e₹ held, not how often it is spent."
 },
 "dates": [
  "2023-03-01",
  "2024-03-01",
  "2025-03-01",
  "2026-03-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "retail_50_paise": {
   "name": "retail_50_paise",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in 50 paise tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    100000,
    900000,
    1100000,
    0
   ]
  },
  "retail_1": {
   "name": "retail_1",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹1 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    400000,
    3700000,
    4600000,
    7712500000
   ]
  },
  "retail_2": {
   "name": "retail_2",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹2 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    600000,
    5400000,
    7800000,
    100000
   ]
  },
  "retail_5": {
   "name": "retail_5",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹5 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    1200000,
    13700000,
    17700000,
    100000
   ]
  },
  "retail_10": {
   "name": "retail_10",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹10 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    1500000,
    21400000,
    30600000,
    200000
   ]
  },
  "retail_20": {
   "name": "retail_20",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹20 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    2300000,
    39400000,
    63900000,
    3600000
   ]
  },
  "retail_50": {
   "name": "retail_50",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹50 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    3900000,
    84900000,
    166400000,
    0
   ]
  },
  "retail_100": {
   "name": "retail_100",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹100 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    8300000,
    207300000,
    382300000,
    0
   ]
  },
  "retail_200": {
   "name": "retail_200",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹200 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    11600000,
    320100000,
    913300000,
    0
   ]
  },
  "retail_500": {
   "name": "retail_500",
   "label": "Retail e₹ in ₹500 tokens",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Retail e₹ by denomination",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    27100000,
    1643600000,
    8576800000,
    0
   ]
  },
  "retail": {
   "name": "retail",
   "label": "e₹ in circulation, retail",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Totals",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    57000000,
    2340400000,
    10165000000,
    7716600000
   ]
  },
  "wholesale": {
   "name": "wholesale",
   "label": "e₹ in circulation, wholesale",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Totals",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    106900000,
    800000,
    null,
    null
   ]
  },
  "total": {
   "name": "total",
   "label": "e₹ in circulation, total",
   "unit": "inr_amount",
   "group": "Totals",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    163900000,
    2341200000,
    10165000000,
    7716600000
   ]
  }
 }
}