{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "public-finance",
  "source": "Reserve Bank of India, DBIE (via the Data Bank)",
  "product": "public-finance",
  "base": "GDP 1999-2000 series",
  "vintage": "2026-10-10",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "releaseDate": null,
  "revisionPolicy": "Each year passes through three stages: the budget estimate (February before the year), the revised estimate (February of the year) and the accounts (provisional in May after the year, audited later). The RBI's tables restate a year as it moves from one stage to the next; each stage is kept as its own series.",
  "frequency": "annual",
  "unit": "pct_gdp",
  "stages": {
   "accountsTo": "2023-24",
   "revisedEstimate": "2024-25",
   "budgetEstimate": "2025-26"
  },
  "scope": "combined",
  "table": {
   "report": "342",
   "handbook": 87,
   "title": "Select debt indicators of the central and state governments, per cent of GDP"
  },
  "latestPeriod": "2003-04 (financial year)",
  "coverage": "Government debt as a share of GDP: the Centre, the states and the two together, 1980-81 to 2003-04, over GDP on the 1999-2000 base",
  "note": "RBI, Select debt indicators of the central and state governments, per cent of GDP (DBIE report 342). Per cent of GDP at current market prices, GDP on the 1999-2000 base (the RBI's note on its state-indicators table: 1999-2000 base to 2003-04, 2004-05 base to 2010-11, 2011-12 base from 2011-12; the Centre's and the combined tables divide by the same GDP, checked by their implied denominators). A different GDP base is a different ruler: never joined across bundles. Cross-checked against the printed table (Innovation Hub export of Handbook report 87): 276 of 276 figures match."
 },
 "dates": [
  "1980-04-01",
  "1981-04-01",
  "1982-04-01",
  "1983-04-01",
  "1984-04-01",
  "1985-04-01",
  "1986-04-01",
  "1987-04-01",
  "1988-04-01",
  "1989-04-01",
  "1990-04-01",
  "1991-04-01",
  "1992-04-01",
  "1993-04-01",
  "1994-04-01",
  "1995-04-01",
  "1996-04-01",
  "1997-04-01",
  "1998-04-01",
  "1999-04-01",
  "2000-04-01",
  "2001-04-01",
  "2002-04-01",
  "2003-04-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "domestic_liabilities_of_centre": {
   "name": "domestic_liabilities_of_centre_pct_gdp",
   "label": "Domestic liabilities of centre, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 0,
   "data": [
    32.38,
    31.77,
    36.2,
    34.99,
    37.72,
    41.22,
    45.15,
    46.8,
    46.7,
    47.79,
    48.28,
    47.15,
    46.43,
    48.31,
    46.64,
    45.24,
    43.79,
    45.98,
    46.28,
    47.58,
    50.64,
    54.96,
    59.12,
    59.5
   ]
  },
  "external_liabilities_of_centre": {
   "name": "external_liabilities_of_centre_pct_gdp",
   "label": "External liabilities of centre, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 1,
   "data": [
    9.01,
    10,
    10.28,
    10.48,
    10.38,
    11.16,
    11.29,
    12.72,
    12.38,
    13.15,
    11.31,
    16.28,
    15.62,
    14.34,
    13.63,
    12.1,
    10.54,
    10.27,
    9.87,
    9.23,
    8.73,
    8.47,
    7.73,
    6.48
   ]
  },
  "combined_total_liabilities_of_centre_and_states": {
   "name": "combined_total_liabilities_of_centre_and_states_pct_gdp",
   "label": "Combined total liabilities of centre & states, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 2,
   "data": [
    47.94,
    48.92,
    53.29,
    52.55,
    55.95,
    60.51,
    64.85,
    68.15,
    67.7,
    70.06,
    68.85,
    72.89,
    72.01,
    72.39,
    70.04,
    67.28,
    64.37,
    66.29,
    67.11,
    70.47,
    73.67,
    78.79,
    82.86,
    83.23
   ]
  },
  "total_liabilities_of_the_states": {
   "name": "total_liabilities_of_the_states_pct_gdp",
   "label": "Total liabilities of the states, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 3,
   "data": [
    17.9,
    18.01,
    18.8,
    18.86,
    19.77,
    21.19,
    21.57,
    22.05,
    21.46,
    21.89,
    21.86,
    21.82,
    21.74,
    21.08,
    20.7,
    20.34,
    20.14,
    21.04,
    22.16,
    25.19,
    27.29,
    29.32,
    31.01,
    31.79
   ]
  },
  "total_liabilities_of_the_centre": {
   "name": "total_liabilities_of_the_centre_pct_gdp",
   "label": "Total liabilities of the centre, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 4,
   "data": [
    41.39,
    41.77,
    46.48,
    45.47,
    48.1,
    52.38,
    56.44,
    59.52,
    59.08,
    60.94,
    59.59,
    63.42,
    62.05,
    62.65,
    60.27,
    57.34,
    54.32,
    56.24,
    56.14,
    56.81,
    59.36,
    63.44,
    66.85,
    65.98
   ]
  },
  "combined_domestic_liabilities_of_centre_and_states": {
   "name": "combined_domestic_liabilities_of_centre_and_states_pct_gdp",
   "label": "Combined domestic liabilities of centre & states, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 5,
   "data": [
    38.93,
    38.92,
    43.01,
    42.06,
    45.57,
    49.35,
    53.55,
    55.43,
    55.32,
    56.91,
    57.54,
    56.61,
    56.39,
    58.05,
    56.41,
    55.18,
    53.83,
    56.02,
    57.24,
    61.24,
    64.94,
    70.32,
    75.13,
    76.75
   ]
  }
 }
}