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
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Living Conditions
Higher education
Enrolment in higher education has grown relatively slowly in India, and large regional and gender gaps persist
Living Conditions
Education levels in India
Over time, the share of the population that is illiterate has declined sharply. But few Indians go on to get a higher education.
Living Conditions
Literacy in India
India is nearing universal literacy, and historic gaps between socio-economic groups are narrowing
Living Conditions
Enrolment in education
Independent India has brought almost every Indian child into school. But there's still a long way to go with higher education
Economy
Trade
Software service exports in particular have transformed the nature of international trade between India and the world
Population
Mother's age at childbirth
The majority of births every year in India are to women in their twenties. But as family sizes decline, the age at which women have their children is changing in unusual ways
DFI Updates
Introducing Data For India
We built Data For India to expand everyone’s understanding of India through the data. We're beginning with six key socio-economic verticals - insights, charts and access to the underlying data
Measurement
Measuring Mortality
Why is it so difficult to accurately estimate how many people die every year, and of what?
Health
India's disease transition
India is in the midst of a key public health transition, with communicable diseases now accounting for a falling share of deaths
Health
Anaemia in India
India has higher than expected levels of anaemia. Could measurement be part of the explanation?
Living Conditions
Access to drinking water
Most Indians now have access to clean drinking water, but progress on tap water has been slower.
Work
Employment in India
Who is in India’s labour force, who is out of it, what work people in the labour force do, and who is unemployed
Economy
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.
Measurement
Measuring employment and unemployment
What is work in Indian statistics, how is work captured, and who is defined as unemployed
Economy
GDP and per capita income
India's economy is now the fifth largest in the world and is growing faster than most comparable countries. At the individual level, however, it is some distance from the world's richest countries.
