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India in Numbers turns India's official statistics into finished, citable charts: one question per page, the latest figure first, then the source, the release date and a sentence you can paste into an answer. It is built for students preparing for the civil services, and for journalists and researchers on a deadline.
99statistics
99checked against the source
73updated automatically
16state breakdowns
Where the numbers come from
Every figure comes from a primary Government of India publication: a ministry's press release, report or official data service. Each statistic page names the publication, links to it, and gives the date the figure was released and the date we retrieved it. We do not use news reports or secondary compilations. Where a source publishes only an index (wholesale prices), we compute the year-on-year rate exactly as the publisher does, and check that it reproduces every rate they have published.
How each figure is checked
A statistic carries the ✓ Verified badge only after a person has compared every value on its chart with the primary publication, line by line. A record that has not been checked shows a warning banner instead. Where a ministry revises its methods or base year, we show only the comparable series and say so on the page, rather than joining old and new numbers into one line.
How figures stay current
73 statistics and 11 state breakdowns are refreshed by a check that runs every 30 minutes from 9:30 am to 9 pm IST, and once overnight, against the official data server of the Ministry of Statistics (MoSPI). A new figure usually appears within about 40 minutes of its release. Because no one reviews these updates before they go live, the check holds a figure back, keeps the last published values and flags it for a person, whenever:
a period we already show disappears from the source;
a published value is revised by more than a set limit;
a new value jumps further than is plausible for that series, or falls outside its plausible range;
the unit changes, or the query matches more than one series.
The other 26 statistics (MSP for paddy (common), MSP for wheat, electricity generation, per capita net national income, peak power demand met, secondary school dropout rate, secondary gross enrolment ratio, secondary pupil–teacher ratio, forest cover, monsoon rainfall, institutional births, child stunting (under 5), full immunisation (12-23 months, card), MGNREGS person-days, inflation for agricultural labourers (CPI-AL), the Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education, crime rate against women (per lakh women), crime rate (cognizable crimes per lakh people), stage of groundwater extraction, share of women in the Lok Sabha, multidimensional poverty headcount ratio, merchandise exports, foreign exchange reserves, merchandise imports, rupee–dollar exchange rate, merchandise trade balance) come from publications with no reliable data service, and are updated by hand when the next edition appears.
Every version is kept
Official figures are revised: a quick estimate becomes final, an advance estimate becomes provisional. Each time a series changes we archive the whole series as it stood, with the time we retrieved it, a link to an archived copy of the source (Internet Archive) and a fingerprint (SHA-256) of the values. Archived versions are never edited or deleted; the build fails if one is. Each statistic page shows every recorded value of a revised period, can draw first estimates against the latest, and offers every version as a CSV download. That record of what a number was before it changed is part of what we publish.
What we don't do
We publish aggregate statistics only: no data about individuals, ever.
We don't adjust, smooth or forecast official numbers.
Charts don't exaggerate: the vertical axis always spans at least 2 points for rates, so a 0.3-point move looks small.
Using the numbers
Government data is published under the Government Open Data License – India, which lets anyone use it, including commercially, with attribution to the source. Cite the ministry and the publication; each page gives the short form to write in an exam answer and full citations in APA, Chicago and MLA. Our charts and compilation are licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse them with a credit to india.tf.
Who runs this, and who pays for it
India in Numbers is an independent project. It is self-funded: no advertising, no sponsors, no paywall, and no tracking of readers (your saved figures and quiz scores stay in your browser). It is not affiliated with any government body; the figures are the government's, the compilation and charts are ours.
Corrections and status
Our own mistakes are listed on the corrections page (1 so far) and flagged on the statistic's page; revisions by a source are a different thing, recorded under History on each page. The status page shows when every source was last checked, what is due next, and anything overdue or held for review. If a figure doesn't match its source, write to manasisingi08@gmail.com or use “Report a problem” on its page.
Data for reuse
Every statistic is available as CSV and JSON (/api/index.json lists them all), with every archived version as a CSV. Each version also has a permanent page and a frozen embed, so an article can cite the figure as it stood. Follow any statistic or sector by RSS, or add the release calendar to your calendar.