Fine Facts

Fine Facts

World's 1st Geeta Museum: to be built in Kurukshetra with a sum of 10 Crore.

India's 1st Railway food Park: in Pune Railway.

Population-Increase:     1,326,093,247 (2020 est.)

GDP- Increase: $3.202 trillion (nominal; 2020 est.) Increase $11.321 trillion (PPP; 2020 est.)

GDP rank: 5th (nominal; 2019), 3rd (PPP; 2020)

GDP growth: 6.1% (2018) 4.2% (2019),1.9% (2020e) 7.4% (2021e)

GDP per capita: Increase $2,338 (nominal; 2020 est.), Increase $9,027 (PPP; 2020 est.)

GDP per capita rank: 139th (nominal; 2019),118th (PPP; 2019)

GDP by sector: Agriculture: 15.4%, Industry: 23%, Services: 61.5%, (2017 est.)

GDP by component: Household consumption: 59.1%, Government consumption: 11.5%, Investment in fixed capital: 28.5%,

 Investment in inventories: 3.9%, Exports of goods and services: 19.1%

Imports of goods and services:  −22% (2017 est.)

Inflation (CPI): Negative increase of 6.58% (February 2020), 3.3% (2020 est.)

Base borrowing rate: Steady 6.0% (as on 12 July 2019)

Population below poverty line: Positive decrease 6.3% on poverty (2017-18), Positive decrease 3% in extreme poverty (December 2018) (World Poverty Clock estimate)

Gini coefficient: 33.9 medium (2013); 

Human Development Index: Increase 0.647 medium (2018) (129th), 0.477 low IHDI (2018)

Labour force: Increase 519,469,299 (2019), 45.4% employment rate (2018)

Labour force by occupation: Agriculture: 44%, Industry: 25%, Services: 31% (FY 2018)

Unemployment: Negative increase 6.1% (FY 2018), 22.5% youth unemployment (2018)

Main industries: Textiles, chemicals, food processing, agribusiness, handicrafts, petroleum, petrochemicals, gems and jewellery, leather, iron, ore, steel, aluminium,

cement, mining, metals, retail, machinery, information technology, construction, financial services, electric power,

consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, automotive, telecommunications, real estate, paper, transportation, equipment.

Ease-of-doing-business rank: Increase 63rd (easy, 2020)

Indian Forex Reserve: According to the RBI's weekly statistical supplement, the overall forex reserves increased to $501.703 billion from $493.480 billion reported for the week ended May 29.

India's forex reserves comprise foreign currency assets (FCAs), gold reserves, special drawing rights (SDRs) and India's reserve position with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

 Arogya Setu App: Brand Ambassador is Ajay Devgan         

 Tiger Census: is conducted every 4 years.    

 Manushi Chhllar: is appointed as UN ambassador for its project " awareness about Menstruation"

Saurabh Ganguli & Sunil Chhetri: Brand Ambassador of JSW cement.  

State of Poverty in India:   The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index-2018 released by the UN noted that 271 million people moved out of poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16 in India. The poverty rate in the country has nearly halved, falling from 55% to 28% over the ten-year period. Still, a big part of the population in India is living Below the Poverty Line.