Numbers everyone quotes
- GDP growth: how fast the economy is growing
- CPI inflation: how quickly prices are rising for households
- Unemployment and labour force participation
- Population, literacy and health indicators
Where they come from
Many official statistics are produced by the National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), the Reserve Bank of India and other ministries.
Reading statistics carefully
- Check whether a figure is year-on-year or quarter-on-quarter
- Look out for revisions to earlier numbers
- Compare like with like: same base year, same definitions
Coming soon
Simple charts of the latest releases with plain-language explanations.