Living Conditions
Household spending in India
Consumption expenditure, an important indicator of living standards, has risen steadily, and the share of spending on food has declined sharply
Insights, charts and data to create shared knowledge and expand our understanding of India
Living Conditions
Access to electricity
Access to electricity in India is now nearly universal - in 2000, only 60% of the population had access to electricity. By 2021, this figure had risen to 99.6%.
Measurement
Measuring Mortality
Why is it so difficult to accurately estimate how many people die every year, and of what?
economy
Trade
Software service exports in particular have transformed the nature of international trade between India and the world
The move away from agriculture
As countries industrialise and grow, the contribution of agriculture to the economy starts to fall. But the pathways from there on are diverse, and India is in some ways unique.
living conditions
measurement
Measuring consumption expenditure
Consumption expenditure data is vital to the understanding of living standards in India. The latest official data offers a new window, but has also seen key changes in methodology
Measuring employment and unemployment
What is work in Indian statistics, how is work captured, and who is defined as unemployed