# India economic indicators and inflation data — The Raisina Post

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Explore India's annual economic indicators with sourced time series and original publication years. Figures are not real-time market prices.

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# India in data.

Explore India's annual economic indicators with sourced time series and original publication years. Figures are not real-time market prices.

Annual statistical record

Annual World Bank indicators across output, prices, external flows, labour and capital. Each observation retains its reference year. Annual percentages are not the same as monthly CPI inflation or quarterly GDP releases.

## India economy pulse

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### Real GDP growth

—Observation unavailableAwaiting source[World Bank source](<https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=IN>)

### Consumer price inflation

—Observation unavailableAwaiting source[World Bank source](<https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG?locations=IN>)

### Manufacturing / GDP

—Observation unavailableAwaiting source[World Bank source](<https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.ZS?locations=IN>)

### Reserves, including gold

—Observation unavailableAwaiting source[World Bank source](<https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FI.RES.TOTL.CD?locations=IN>)

## India’s economic record

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Sixteen annual series covering output, external flows, jobs and capital. Each figure keeps its own reference year. Current-dollar values are nominal; modelled labour estimates are not India’s monthly survey releases.

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### Published observations

[World Bank source and methodology](<https://data.worldbank.org/country/india>) 

Annual observations

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Source: World Bank World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. Missing years remain missing; lines break at gaps. Ranges end at the latest available reference year. Data may be revised. Source retrieval dates are not publication dates.

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## The rupee over time

Compare purchasing power using India's annual average consumer price index (2010 = 100). This broad basket is not a household-specific cost estimate or the latest monthly CPI release.
  Equivalent amount—Cumulative price change— 

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### Calculation

Equivalent amount = starting amount × end-year CPI ÷ start-year CPI. Cumulative change = (end-year CPI ÷ start-year CPI − 1) × 100. Both selected years must have positive published observations. No interpolation or forecasts are used; calculations use unrounded index values.

### Source

[World Bank WDI · CPI index · underlying source: IMF IFS · CC BY 4.0](<https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL?locations=IN>)

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## Explore the annual record

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## Historical observations

[Original data source](<https://data.worldbank.org/country/india>) 

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## How to read the series

Data: World Bank World Development Indicators, published via the official Indicators API. Data can be revised, series may have missing years, and modelled estimates differ from direct survey counts. Source details are linked against each selected indicator. [API methodology](<https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392>).