https://thisindianlife.today/ India's most important numbers, dragged out of stubborn PDFs and tired government portals and written up in plain language — every page static, sourced, and tied back to where the numbers began. en-in Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:35:11 GMT https://thisindianlife.today/articles/why-india-stayed-poor-while-asia-got-rich/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/why-india-stayed-poor-while-asia-got-rich/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:35:11 GMT Economy Seven decades of data on health, schooling, investment, and factories explain the great divergence. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-el-nino-does-to-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-el-nino-does-to-india/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:23:45 GMT Climate It roughly doubles the odds of a weak monsoon, yet many El Nino years still finished wet. The Indian Ocean, irrigation and food stocks all soften the blow. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/population-of-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/population-of-india/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:24:18 GMT People India is the world’s most populous country, still growing, but fertility has fallen below replacement. The population will peak in the 2060s and then decline. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/who-works-in-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/who-works-in-india/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:24:18 GMT Society Sex, caste, faith, marriage, schooling, and birthplace, not just the economy, decide whether you work, what you do, and what you earn. The headline jobless rate of 3.2% masks a labour market where most work is insecure and poorly paid. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-unequal-is-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-unequal-is-india/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:24:18 GMT Economy The same Indian top 1% takes 4.3% or 22.3% of income, depending on the lens. Consumption Gini is 25.5, income concentration is among the world’s highest, and wealth inequality is extreme. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/who-actually-pays-income-tax-in-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/who-actually-pays-income-tax-in-india/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:24:18 GMT Economy The zero-tax majority is not evasion but a deliberate policy choice that keeps lifting the nil-tax ceiling. The burden rests on a tiny apex. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/why-does-everything-keep-getting-more-expensive/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/why-does-everything-keep-getting-more-expensive/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Economy Inflation is normal, permanent, and uneven. This page uses 30 charts to explain what is happening to your money, why, and what you can actually do about it. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-work/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-work/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Society India's labour force is young and massive but mostly self-employed, informal, and stuck on farms. A low unemployment rate hides a crisis for educated youth, while women remain largely left out. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-borrow/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-borrow/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Economy RBI/IDH gives the granular bank-credit map. BIS and IMF add the wider household-debt and credit-system context without replacing the Indian loan-product data. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-powers-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-powers-india/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Energy A deep dive into India's energy system: electricity generation, fuel imports, and the slow shift to clean power. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/are-indias-big-cities-getting-hotter/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/are-indias-big-cities-getting-hotter/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Climate Across 38 cities, 36 are warmer than the 1940s. But feels-like heat is rising faster than the thermometer, exposing Delhi and Amritsar, which look flat on dry temperature alone. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/are-indias-heat-deaths-being-counted/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/are-indias-heat-deaths-being-counted/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Climate Official heat deaths are narrow labels. CRS and MCCD show why: in 2023, 97.2% of deaths were registered, but only 22.0% had medically certified causes. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-is-climate-change-changing-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-is-climate-change-changing-india/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Climate Data on temperature, rainfall, sea level, extreme heat, and emissions paint a picture of a country already feeling the effects, while its per-person CO₂ remains far below that of rich nations. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-connected-is-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-connected-is-india/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Society Internet use reached 70% in 2025. Cheap mobile data, UPI, and wireless networks changed daily life, but gender and rural gaps remain. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-trade-with-the-world/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-trade-with-the-world/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Economy From $1.3 bn in 1948 to $445 bn in exports by 2025, India's trade has multiplied. But a persistent goods deficit of $308 bn is offset by services and remittances. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/who-does-india-trade-with/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/who-does-india-trade-with/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Economy India's exports reached $291 bn in manufactures in 2024, but a yawning deficit with China and a surge in fuel imports shape the story. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/is-india-a-services-superpower/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/is-india-a-services-superpower/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Economy Services earned $415 billion in 2025, just shy of $445 billion from goods, and India's share of world services exports is 4.4% – more than double its goods share. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-competitive-is-indias-trade-with-the-world/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-competitive-is-indias-trade-with-the-world/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:36:14 GMT Economy Despite $445 billion in merchandise exports, India's share of world exports is just 1.7%, lower than in 1948. Tariffs remain high, and export complexity lags Asian peers. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-big-is-indias-economy/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-big-is-indias-economy/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Economy India’s economy is both enormous and poor. The total output places it among the top five, but the average income is lower than many Asian peers. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-fast-is-indias-economy-growing/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-fast-is-indias-economy-growing/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Economy Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded at a real rate of 6.5% in 2024, according to the World Bank. This is a measure of economic output after adjusting for inflation. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-rich-is-the-average-indian/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-rich-is-the-average-indian/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Economy GDP per capita is a rough measure of average economic output, but it hides huge inequalities. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-compare-with-china-the-us-and-the-world/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-compare-with-china-the-us-and-the-world/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Economy Compared with China, the US, and the world, India looks different across GDP, population, health, electricity, internet, cities, and women's work. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-long-do-indians-live/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-long-do-indians-live/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Health Life expectancy at birth has nearly doubled since 1960, but healthy years lag behind. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-healthy-are-those-extra-years/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-healthy-are-those-extra-years/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Health WHO estimates healthy life expectancy in India at 58.1 years in 2021, down from 60.9 in 2019. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-many-indian-children-die-before-age-five/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-many-indian-children-die-before-age-five/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Health That is the latest rate for India. It has fallen sharply from 241.3 in 1960. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-kills-indians/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-kills-indians/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Health Non-communicable diseases have overtaken infections as the top killers. Cardiovascular disease, cancers, and respiratory illnesses lead, but injuries and suicide hit working-age Indians hardest. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-literate-is-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-literate-is-india/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Society World Bank data shows a steady increase, but the rate is still below universal literacy. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-many-years-of-schooling-do-indians-get/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-many-years-of-schooling-do-indians-get/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Society From under 6 years in 1971 to over 11 years in 2019, school life expectancy has nearly doubled. Secondary enrollment also rose from 24% to 80%. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-many-indians-are-in-the-workforce/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-many-indians-are-in-the-workforce/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Society India’s labour force has doubled since 1990, but participation lags behind neighbours, and unemployment hits youth and graduates hardest. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/why-is-womens-work-participation-so-low/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/why-is-womens-work-participation-so-low/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Society Rural women are driving a sharp recovery, but urban women and young women still struggle. The gender gap remains large. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-share-of-indians-still-work-in-agriculture/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-share-of-indians-still-work-in-agriculture/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Society The share has fallen slowly from 63.1% in 1991, and even rose after 2019. Farming generates only 16.3% of GDP. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-generate-electricity/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-does-india-generate-electricity/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Energy Coal provided 71% of electricity in 2025, yet clean sources surpassed a quarter for the first time. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-dependent-is-india-on-coal/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-dependent-is-india-on-coal/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Energy In 2025, coal generated 70.8% of India's electricity. But the real story is more than one number: absolute coal use keeps rising, imports matter, and the climate cost is growing. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/is-indias-electricity-going-green/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/is-indias-electricity-going-green/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Energy Coal still dominates at 70.8%, but solar and wind are growing fast. Here's the data on India's electricity transition. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/do-nearly-all-indians-have-electricity-now/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/do-nearly-all-indians-have-electricity-now/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Energy Electricity access hit 99.5% in 2023, but cooking still relies on polluting fuels for one in four people, and per-person power use remains low. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-bad-is-indias-air-today/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-bad-is-indias-air-today/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Climate The latest WAQI station snapshots show Mumbai highest among these five cities, followed by Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-much-co2-does-india-emit/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-much-co2-does-india-emit/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Climate But per person, the average Indian released just 2.2 tonnes. Coal dominates the total. Here are five key numbers to understand India's carbon dioxide emissions. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-much-does-india-emit-per-person/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-much-does-india-emit-per-person/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Climate In 2024, India's per capita CO₂ was 2.2 tonnes, far below the world average and major emitters, but its 1.4 billion people push the national total to 3.19 billion tonnes. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/is-india-a-big-emitter-historically/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/is-india-a-big-emitter-historically/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Climate From negligible levels in 1858, India's historical CO2 emissions have grown to over 66 billion tonnes, making it a significant contributor to atmospheric CO2. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/do-indians-have-safe-drinking-water/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/do-indians-have-safe-drinking-water/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Society Access to basic services rose from 79.5% in 2000 to 95.7% in 2024, yet the indicator measures availability, not necessarily water quality. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-much-tax-does-india-collect/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/how-much-tax-does-india-collect/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Economy Tax-to-GDP ratio measures government's share of the economy. India's ratio has declined over decades. https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-share-of-the-world-is-india/ https://thisindianlife.today/articles/what-share-of-the-world-is-india/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:52 GMT Society India's share of the world changes sharply depending on the denominator: people, economic output, or emissions.