Indian Economy Statistics

The RBI study 'Growth Savings and Investment' highlighted that domestic industries contributed 18% to the GDP growth during the 2003-04 fiscal year.

During the early 2000s, the contribution of agriculture to India's GDP was approximately 25 percent.

The core sector growth in India for the fiscal year 2003-2004 was officially recorded at 5.4%.

According to the 2001 Census of India, the decadal growth rate of the population between 1991 and 2001 was 21.54 percent, which is closest to the provided option of 21.3 percent.

According to RBI data for the fiscal year 2009-10, the total outward FDI by Indian companies was approximately $10,306 million.

In the 2010 Forbes Asia 'Best Under A Billion' list, India had the second-highest number of companies represented, trailing only China.

India is a major producer of eggs, but it does not rank first in the world; China is the largest producer of eggs.

According to the 2010 SIPRI report covering 2009 data, India ranked as the ninth-largest military spender in the world.

As of February 2008, the exports from Agriculture Export Zones (AEZs) were reported to be around Rs. 10,000 crores.

The Indian economy grew at approximately 8% during the 2007-08 fiscal year, maintaining a strong growth trajectory during that period.

The agricultural sector growth rate for the 2007-08 period was reported as 2.6% by government economic surveys.

The GDP growth target for 11^th Plan (2007-12) has been fixed at 9.0%. The Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-08 to 2011-12) ended with GDP growing 7.9% per annum as against the target of 9.0% per annum set by the Planning Commission. The rapid GDP growth of 9.0% was regarded necessary for various reasons.

At present the share of Indian Foreign Trade in World Trade is from 0.5% to 1.0%. According to the latest information by the WTO, India's share in total world trade is from .5% to 1%. In 1950s, India's share in the world trade was 1.78% which was declined to 0.59% in 1990 and continues to remain around 0.60% till now.  

Agriculture growth rate in year 2010-11 stood at 5.3%. India's annual agriculture growth rate slumped in the January-March quarter to a nine-year low of 5.3 percent as the manufacturing sector contracted and a fall in the rupee to a record low suggests the economy remains under pressure in the current quarter. 

Crude oil production in India during 2009-10 has been estimated at 37·98 million tones. The domestic crude oil production during 2009-10 has increased by 7 per cent over the last year and a guess is made that it is about 37.98 million tones.