{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "public-finance",
  "source": "Reserve Bank of India, DBIE (via the Data Bank)",
  "product": "public-finance",
  "base": "GDP 2004-05 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": "2010-11 (financial year)",
  "coverage": "Government debt as a share of GDP: the Centre, the states and the two together, 2004-05 to 2010-11, over GDP on the 2004-05 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 2004-05 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": [
  "2004-04-01",
  "2005-04-01",
  "2006-04-01",
  "2007-04-01",
  "2008-04-01",
  "2009-04-01",
  "2010-04-01"
 ],
 "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": [
    59.64,
    58.64,
    56.72,
    54.65,
    53.93,
    52.42,
    48.58
   ]
  },
  "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": [
    5.9,
    5.25,
    4.68,
    4.21,
    4.69,
    3.85,
    3.58
   ]
  },
  "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": [
    82.13,
    79.07,
    74.66,
    71.44,
    72.21,
    70.6,
    65.6
   ]
  },
  "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": [
    31.28,
    31.08,
    28.91,
    26.63,
    26.11,
    25.45,
    23.5
   ]
  },
  "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": [
    65.53,
    63.9,
    61.4,
    58.86,
    58.62,
    56.27,
    52.16
   ]
  },
  "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": [
    76.24,
    73.82,
    69.98,
    67.23,
    67.52,
    66.76,
    62.02
   ]
  }
 }
}