MACRO ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Population 1,095,351,995 (2006 est.)
Population Growth Rate 1.38% (2006 est.)
GDP at Factor Cost (current prices) Q2 of 2006-07 US$ 190.044 billion
GDP at Factor Cost (constant prices-1999-2000)
Q2 of 2006-07
US$ 146.735 billion
Composition of GDP Services: 53.8 %
Industry: 27.6%
Agriculture: 18.6%

Industrial Growth (April- November 2006) 10.6 per cent
Inflation (for the week ended December 30, 2006) 5.58 per cent
Forex Reserves (excluding gold and SDRs) US$ 170.19 billion (at the end of December 2006)
Exchange rate
INR/1 USD Rs 44.1100 (As on February 3, 2006)
Food grain stocks (As on October 1, 2006) 12.38 million tonnes
Exports
(April-December 2006)
(April-December 2005) US $ 89489.08 million (provisional)
US $ 65668.80 million (provisional)
Imports
(April -December 2006)
(April - December 2005) US $ 131212 million (provisional)
US $ 96263.95 million (provisional)
India's external debt stock (as on end September 2006) US$ 136.5 billion
Average literacy rate (census 2001) 64.84%
Life expectancy for males (2006 est.) 63.9 years
Life expectancy for women (2006 est.) 65.57 years
Number of Registered FIIs (as on Feb 2006) Over 1000
Sovereign credit ratings
Standard and Poor (As On January 30, 2007) BBB-/ A-3