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.
