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India exports goods and services worth $780 billion, while its imports are worth $850 billion. The total value of India's imports has consistently exceeded its exports in recent decades. A recurring pattern in India's trade, like in many other emerging economies, involves

Under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 6.2, India has committed to eliminating open defecation and providing equitable access to sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030. Administrative data from the Indian government captures the number of toilets built. However,

India's female labour force participation rate (LFPR) - the share of women who are either working or seeking work - is low by global standards. Historically, a majority of adult Indian women reported that they were attending to household duties and were not available for paid

Over the last two decades, India has seen a big push towards financial inclusion. Having a bank account is an important first step in that journey, allowing account-holders to receive welfare benefits, save, borrow and invest. From fewer than half of Indian households having a

Only four in ten Indian women participate in the labour force (people who are either working or looking for work as a share of the population), according to India's most recent labour statistics. This number is lower than in many countries at comparable levels of income and

Most Indian adults have low levels of education, with just over one in ten having completed a higher education programme. This data comes from the 2022-23 Periodic Labour Force Survey. Looking at the population by age groups, however, shows that the level of educational

The most widely used indicator to understand how risky pregnancy and childbirth in a region can be is the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), or the number of maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births. Maternal deaths are deaths during pregnancy or within 42 days after,

With over 1.3 billion people, India is the most populous country in the world. But since the 1990s, India's population growth has been gradually slowing down. One reason behind this slowdown is the declining Total Fertility Rate (TFR), the average number of children a woman is

India's economy is now the fifth largest in the world, and projected to become the third largest by 2027. The size of a country's economy is measured in terms of the gross domestic product (GDP). The GDP is the sum of the monetary value of everything that is produced in the

India has the world's largest emigrant population, with over 18.5 million people of Indian origin living overseas in 2024, accounting for 6% of all international migrants globally. According to the United Nations, an international migrant is someone who has moved across an

Life expectancy - the average age that a child could expect to live to - has been steadily increasing in India. A child born in 1970 could expect to live only until her 50th birthday. By 2018, life expectancy had risen to over 70 years. In the 1970s when comparable data first

Meat, poultry, seafood and eggs are widely consumed in India. Approximately 80% of Indians aged 15-49 consumed some form of animal-sourced protein (excluding dairy) as of 2021, a rise from 74% in 2006. The National Family Health Survey classifies different types of animal

Measuring the ownership of physical assets--like a TV, refrigerator, or washing machine--often helps understand the economic situation of a household. The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey by the National Statistics Office does exactly that, asking Indian households if

Historically, when countries moved away from an agrarian economy, economic growth first came from industry, followed by a much later growth in services. This was true for the early industrialisers of Europe and North America, as well as Japan and some other East Asian economies.

Over half of all women aged 15-49 in India were anaemic as of 2021, according to the National Family Health Survey’s (NFHS) 5th round. While education and wealth are associated with slightly lower levels of anaemia, prevalence remains high even among the most educated and

Access to mobile phones and the internet in India have expanded rapidly over the last decade. However, there is a gap in the technical skills needed to use these technologies effectively to communicate, learn and work. India is a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable

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Across the world and over time, women choose to have fewer children when incomes, access to education and healthcare improve. India has seen the same trend. The share of mothers with three or more children dropped from over 60% in 1993 to 40% by 2021. However, while Indian

The self-employed make up the majority of the Indian workforce. India's labour statistics define the self-employed as persons who operate their own farm or non-farm enterprise, or are engaged independently in a profession or trade on their own, or with one or a few partners in