{
 "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": "347",
   "handbook": 86,
   "title": "Combined deficits of the central and state governments, per cent of GDP"
  },
  "latestPeriod": "2003-04 (financial year)",
  "coverage": "The general government's deficits as a share of GDP, 1981-82 to 2003-04, over GDP on the 1999-2000 base",
  "note": "RBI, Combined deficits of the central and state governments, per cent of GDP (DBIE report 347). 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 86): 135 of 135 figures match."
 },
 "dates": [
  "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": {
  "gross_fiscal_deficit": {
   "name": "gross_fiscal_deficit_pct_gdp",
   "label": "Gross fiscal deficit, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 0,
   "data": [
    6,
    5.7,
    7,
    8.6,
    7.7,
    9.5,
    8.8,
    8.2,
    8.6,
    9.1,
    6.8,
    6.8,
    8,
    6.9,
    6.3,
    6.1,
    7,
    8.7,
    9.1,
    9.2,
    9.6,
    9.3,
    8.3
   ]
  },
  "revenue_deficit": {
   "name": "revenue_deficit_pct_gdp",
   "label": "Revenue deficit, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 1,
   "data": [
    -0.6,
    0.2,
    1,
    1.7,
    1.8,
    2.3,
    2.8,
    2.8,
    3.1,
    4.1,
    3.3,
    3.1,
    4.1,
    3.6,
    3.1,
    3.4,
    4,
    6.1,
    6,
    6.4,
    6.8,
    6.4,
    5.6
   ]
  },
  "gross_primary_deficit": {
   "name": "gross_primary_deficit_pct_gdp",
   "label": "Gross primary deficit, per cent of GDP",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "stage": "accounts",
   "unit": "pct_gdp",
   "order": 2,
   "data": [
    3.9,
    3.3,
    4.6,
    5.9,
    4.7,
    6.2,
    5.3,
    4.4,
    4.5,
    4.9,
    2.2,
    2.1,
    3.1,
    1.8,
    1.5,
    1.2,
    2.1,
    3.5,
    3.7,
    3.4,
    3.6,
    3,
    2
   ]
  }
 }
}