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Dec 17, 2024
With over 1.3 billion people, India is now 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), which represents the average number of
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Mar 7, 2025
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
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Jan 3, 2025
Two in three children under the age of five in India were anaemic as of 2021, as well as over half of women aged 15-49 years, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 5th round. Not only are India's anaemia numbers high, but NFHS data also suggests that the
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Jun 3, 2025
Globally, the number of deaths from malaria has remained relatively steady since the 1990s. However, India has made significant progress in reducing its share of these deaths. In 1990, India recorded around nearly 10 deaths from malaria for every 100,000 people. By 2019, India's
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Apr 1, 2025
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
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Feb 7, 2025
One of the most helpful ways to understand how Indians live is by looking at how much they spend in a month. This is particularly significant in India where the economy is largely informal and agricultural, making income measurement a challenge. An average Indian’s Monthly Per
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Jul 29, 2025
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
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Aug 1, 2025
Meat is widely consumed in India. As of 2021, 80% of Indians aged 15-49 consumed some form of animal-sourced protein (excluding dairy)--up from 74% in 2006. The National Family Health Survey asks a representative sample of respondents if they have consumed any of the three broad
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May 30, 2025
Over time, India’s economy has steadily moved away from its dependence on agriculture. The services sector now accounts for over half of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) as of 2024. To varying extents, most Indian states too reflect this shift. India's richest states are the
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Mar 4, 2025
Less than 40 million young Indians (age 18-23) were enroled in higher education programmes as of 2022. This includes both undergraduate (or equivalent) and postgraduate (or equivalent) levels of study. Of the 33 million enroled in undergraduate programmes, the Arts discipline
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Mar 28, 2025
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
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Dec 31, 2024
During the 1970s, agriculture was the single biggest contributor to the Indian economy. About three-fourths of India's workers were engaged in agriculture, and the sector accounted for 40% of Gross Value Added to the country's economy. Since then, a lot has changed for India's
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Nov 26, 2024
In the early 2000s, less than 8/10 Indians had access to basic drinking water, lower than the world average and even our neighbours in Sri Lanka. Two decades later, nearly 95% of Indian households now have access to basic drinking water, a rate of progress that has surpassed the
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Apr 15, 2025
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
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