India

Official title:

Republic of India

General information:
Capital: New Delhi
Population: 1,339,330,514 (July 2021 est.)
Total area: 3,287,263 sq km
Currency: Indian rupee (INR)
National holiday: Republic Day, 26th January (1950)
Official languages: Hindi and English[1]

Recognized regional languages[2]: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu

Type of government:
Federal parliamentary constitutional republic
Diplomatic and consular representative: H.E. Ms Namrata S. Kumar

Economy:

Real GDP growth rate

-7,7% (2020 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices)

4,6% (2020 est.)

Real GDP (purchasing power parity)

$9,859 trillion (2020 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate)

$2,875 trillion (2020 est.)

Real GDP per capita

$7,200 (2020 est.)

Agriculture products: rice, wheat, cereals, oilseed, cotton, sugarcane

Main industries: software, petroleum products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, textiles, steel, transportation equipment, machinery, cement, mining, construction

Trade - Export
Exported commodities: software, petrochemicals, agriculture products, jewelry, engineering products, pharmaceuticals, textiles, chemicals, transportation parts, ores and other goods

Main export partners:

US 15,6%

United Arab Emirates 11,1%

China 5,9%

Hong Kong 5,2%

Singapore 4,7%%

United Kingdom 4,%

Vietnam 4%

Germany 3,1%

Bangladesh 2,8%

Nepal 2,8% (2021)

Trade - Import
Imported commodities: crude oil, gold and precious stones, electronics, engineering goods, chemicals, plastics, coal and ores, iron and steel, vegetable oil and other goods

Main import partners:

China 18,6%

United Arab Emirates 8,3%

Saudi Arabia 7,2%

United States 6,7%

Switzerland 4,3%

Hong Kong 4,1%

Singapore 4%

Germany 3,8%

Indonesia 3,4%

South Korea 3,1% (2021)

China 5,9%

Internet Access

India’s internet user community numbered more than 622 million in 2020. India is ranked as 68th in the world for fixed-line Broadband speeds. That is an average speed of 60.06 Mbps as measured during July 2020.

Sources:

Central Intelligence Agency. 2021. The World Factbook: India. Available at: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/india/ (December 9th 2021).

Indian Ministry of Finance – Department of Economic Affairs. Monthly Economic Report – December 2015. Available at: http://www.finmin.nic.in/stats_data/monthly_economic_report/2015/inddec15.pdf (February 10th 2020).

Reserve Bank of India. 2015. Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy. Available at: https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Publications/PDFs/00HC398B27C6AFF47039ABE93049886B494.PDF (February 10th 2016).

Comparitech. 2021. India Cyber Profile. Available at: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/india-cyber-profile/