Economy & employment stats,

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Following are various stats, Iacts and Iigures on the economy and
employment in India , picked out oI newspapers (mainly Hindustan
Times), magazines (mainly India Today), the BBC and various
sources on the web. These Iigures are not meant to be
comprehensive lists, but rather statistical trivia or Iactual snippets.
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The stats on this page are divided into Iollowing sections:
Figures on employment
Data on employment in IT & BPO (Business Process
Outsourcing)
Statistics on income, wages, labour Iorce etc
Indian IT industry & BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) related
data
Statistics on economic growth and GDP in India
Data on government income and spending
Various economic statistics and Iigures
Stats on Indian import, export and domestic market
Lines marked with an asterisk (*) are recently added entries.



some Iigures on employment
- number oI regular employees oI Indian Railways in 1997:
1,583,614 (standing
world record 2004) |GWR|
- number oI people applying Ior 22,000 jobs advertised by the
Indian Railway (2003):
740,000
- planned number oI staII oI Reuters news agency to work in
Bangalore by 2006:
1,500 (or 10 oI Reuter's total workIorce) |BBC Oct 04|
- number oI Dalits employed to clean toilet pits (& remove night
soil) in Bangalore:
10,000 - 15,000 estimate |BBC; Sep 2002|
- working population: 699.9 million |GTF; 2005|
- domestic workers in India: 14 million |approx 2003|
- women employed in rural areas: 31 |approx 2003|
- women employed in cities: 11 |approx 2003|
- people registered as unemployed with 936 employment
exchanges: 41.6 million
(beginning 2004)
- * people employed: about 480 million |AT Jan 07|
- unemployment in Himachal Pradesh: 120,000 people or 20
|HT Apr 04|
- employment in the unorganised sector: 91.39 oI work Iorce
|approx 2003|
- employed in agriculture: 50 (2003)
- employment growth in agriculture: 0.01 (2003)

employment in IT and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing)
- * number oI people employed in overall IT industry in India (end
2006):
1.3 million directly -- 3 million indirectly |BBC Jan 07|
- staII employed in ITES-BPO : 2002/03: 171,100 -- 2003/04:
245,100
(ITES-BPO: IT enabled Services - Business Process Outsourcing)
|GTF; 2005|
- staII employed in outsourced customer service: 2002/03: 65,000 -
- 2003/04: 95,000
|GTF; 2005|
- annual employee attrition (staII turnover) in voice based BPO
(i.e. outsourced
call centres): up to 70-80 in some voice BPOs |GTF; Jan 2006
- * number oI people applying at InIosys in Bangalore: 1.4 million
in 2006 |BBC Jan 07|
- * number oI workers hired by InIosys in Bangalore per year:
30,000 |BBC Jan 07|
- * people employed by three major Indian IT Iirms (InIosys,
Wipro, TCS):
2006: between 52,000 and 83,000 each-- 2001: between 10,000
and 20,000 each --
1996: between 1,000 and 9,000 each |BBC Jan 07|
- * people employed abroad by major IT Iirms: Wipro: 11,000 --
TCS: 20,000
|BBC Jan 07|
- annual salary hike in IT services 2003: 14 |2004|
- * levels oI pay Ior legal proIessionals in India as used in LPO
(Legal Process Outsourcing): 10 - 15 oI that oI US lawyers
|DNA May 06|
- * standard salary Ior call centre worker in India: around 1.2 lakh
Rs
(120,000Rs or 1,600 GBP) per year or 10,000 Rs per year |BBC
Jan 07|
- call centre salary in Gurgaon (in the state oI Haryana, but more
considered a
suburb oI Delhi): 8,000 to 14,000 Rupees per month |2004|
- * number oI members oI WBITSA (West Bengali organisation
representing
IT worker's rights): 500 |BBC Jan 07|
- * number oI IT workers in West Bengal: 2006: 40,000 (incl. call
centre staII)
|BBC Jan 07| -- 2004: 20,000 |BBC Oct 04|

statistics on income, wages, labour Iorce etc
- average per capita income (GNI): 470 US Dollar (2003)
- average per capita income in Bihar: 4,616 Rupees (approx 80
Euro)
- oIIicial minimum wage in Jammu & Kashmir state: 1,800 Rs per
month (or
60 Rupees per day, equiv to 1.2 Euro per day) Ior simple labourer
- oIIicial minimum wage in Himachal Pradesh: 65 Rupees per day
(simple labourer)
- population living on less than 2 USD per day: 41.4 percent
|v2020; Apr 2003|
- average monthly wage: 179 USD |GTF; 2005|
- India's working age population (15-60 years): 610 million
(estimate 2003)
- growth oI India's labour Iorce: 1.9 per year |BBC Jul 04|
- growth oI job creation between 1994-2000: 1.07 per annum
- estimate oI wage increase over the next Iour decades: 800
(estimate by IMF)
|BBC Jul 04|
- number oI cabin crew working Ior Air India: 1,600 |BBC, Jan
2006|
- salary oI senior Air Hostess in India: up to 75,000 Rs per month
|BBC, Jan 2006|
- percentage oI Air India's cabin crew being overweight or obese:
20 |BBC, Jan 06|
- expected increase oI passengers in the Indian aviation market:
approx 45 million
over next 5 years |BBC, Jan 2006|
- monthly salary oI 5 year old Police OIIicer in Chattisgarh: 2,500
Rs (the boy took
over the job Irom his Iather when he died, responsible Ior Iiling
and bringing tea)
|BBC, Sep 2005|
- number oI children working in Tamil Nadu districts oI
Kanchipuram and
Thiruvanamalai in silk industry: 10,000 estimate |BBC; Aug
2005|
- Indian child labourers: between 10.25 to 19.90 oI all Indian
children aged 9-15
|BBC; Aug 2005|

Indian IT industry & outsourcing / oII-shoring (BPO) related data
- * contribution to India's GDP by Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO):
estimated Ior Financial Year 2007: 5.4 -- Financial Year 2006:
4.8 |FE Jan 07|
- * exports oI BPO services: 2006: 13bn GBP -- expected 2010:
30bn GBP |BBC Jan 07|
- * export oI soItware services and IT-BPO in Iinancial year 2006-
07 according
to Nasscom: approx 16.3bn GBP (31bn USD) |FE Jan 07|
- * increase oI world wide share oI the global outsourcing market
by Indian
companies: within the last 4 years Irom 0.5 to 7 |BBC Jan 07|
- revenue Irom BPO & call centres in Iiscal year 2004-05: 5.2bn
USD |c/net; Jun 05|
- revenue Irom export oI soItware and services industry in Iiscal
year 2004-05:
17.2bn USD |c/net; Jun 2005|
- total revenue in soItware industry in Iiscal year 2003-04: 15.9bn
USD |GTF; 2005|
- export oI goods and services oI India's IT and outsourcing
industries in Iiscal
year 2003-04: 7 billion GBP |BBC sep 04|
- revenue percentage oI soItware industry exports 2003-04: 78
|GTF; 2005|
- contribution oI outsourcing to India's total soItware exports: 29
|BBC sep 04|
- Bangalore's (Karnataka's state capital) revenue Irom overseas
outsourcing: 32
oI India's total overseas outsourcing revenue oI 10 bn Euro |BBC
Sep 04|
- * value oI shares sold in 1999 by Bangalore based company
InIosys:
approx 37 million GBP |BBC Jan 07|
- * current market value oI major IT Iirms: InIosys: 17 billion GBP
--
Wipro: 13bn GBP -- TCS: 13bn GBP (all Iigures approximately,
with exchange rate
1.9 USD 1 GBP) |BBC Jan 07|
- * current annual revenue oI major IT Iirms: InIosys: 1.1 billion
GBP --
Wipro: 1.2bn GBP -- TCS: 1.6bn GBP (all Iigures approximately,
with exchange rate 1.9 USD 1 GBP) |BBC Jan 07|
- * area oI the InIosys campus in Bangalore: 40 acres |BBC Jan
07|
- * number oI major international companies which have IT
operations in
Bangalore: more than 500 |BBC Jan 07|
- * concentration oI IT sector in Bangalore: 40 percent oI the
whole oI
India's IT industry |BBC Jan 07|
- * population in Bangalore: estimate Ior 2015: 10m -- 2006: 6.5m
-- 1990: 2.8m --
1970: 1.6m |BBC Jan 07|
- * expected Iuture share by India oI the emerging global KPO
market: 70 oI
the estimated 17bn USD global KPO market (KPO: Knowledge
Process
Outsourcing) |DNA May 06|
more on e-commerce on telecom & IT stats page

statistics on economic growth and GDP in India
- * growth oI Indian economy Ior 2006-07: approx 9 |BBC Jan
07|
- * growth oI Indian economy or GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
2005-06: 9 --
2006-07: 7.4 |DNA Jan 07|
- * economic growth in the manuIacturing and industry sector
(2005-06):
9.1 percent |DNA Jan 07|
- * economic growth in the IT and ITES sector: approx 20 percent
|DNA Dec 06|
- * economic growth in the agricultural sector: 6 percent |DNA Jan
07|
- * percentage oI India's GDP coming Irom services,
manuIacturing and industry:
77 percent |DNA Dec 06|
- * contribution to India's economy by the nearly 70 oI the
population living
oII the land: 23 percent |DNA Dec 06|
- * Gross Domestic Savings (GDS): 2005-06: 32.4 oI GDP --
2004-05: 31.1 oI GDP
- * yearly Ioreign investment: 2006: 6.3bn GBP estimate -- 2005:
4.2bn GBP --
2004: 2.1bn GBP |BBC Jan 07|
- economic growth in 2003: about 7
- growth oI India's economy in the year 2004 to March: 8.2 (the
country's Iastest
expansion in 15 years) |BBC Jul 04|

some data on government income and spending
- Indian Ioreign exchange reserves: March 2005: 137.55 bn USD
|RediII; Mar 05| --
mid Dec 2005: 144.05 bn USD -- end Dec 2005: 137.2 bn USD
|IInIoLine; Jan 2006|
- India's Gold reserves end Dec 2005: 5.27 bn USD |IInIoLine; Jan
2006|
- India Iorex reserves 2004: over 80 billion Euro (cash Ioreign
investment)
- corporate tax rate: 35.88 |GTF; 2005|
- VAT tax rate: 12.5 |GTF; 2005|
- rate oI inIlation: 3.8 |GTF; 2005| -- earlier about 6 |BBC
Jul 04|
- number oI tax payers: 20 million (2 oI the population) |BBC
Jul 04|
- money collected in income tax (per year): more than one trillion
rupees (17.6 bn Euro)
|BBC Jul 04|
- lowest rate oI income tax: 10 (at annual income between
50,000 and 60,000 Rs,
equiv to 960-1150 Euro) |BBC Jul 04|
- top rate oI income tax: 30 (at annual income above 150,000
Rs,
equiv to 2880 Euro) |BBC Jul 04|
- increase oI government 's gross tax collection Ior time period
April - October 2003:
8.89 up Irom previous year
- increase oI military spending by government with new budget Jul
04: 18 ,
to 770 bn Rs (14.8 bn Euro) |BBC Jul 04|

various economic statistics and Iigures
- * India's share oI global biotech market: approx 1.1 |DNA Jan
07|
- * revenues generated by the biotech sector: 2006: approx 61bn Rs
(1.5bn USD) --
2005: approx 32bn Rs (780m USD) |DNA Jan 07|
- * number oI companies comprising the biotech industry 2006:
280 |DNA Jan 07|
- percentage oI organised retail sector in total retail sales: 3
|BBC, Oct 2005|
- number oI shopping malls 5 years ago: 0 (no malls, only
shopping arcades existed)
|BBC, Oct 2005|
- number oI shopping malls Iunctional or under construction in
Gurgaon 2004: 8
|HT Feb 2004|
- number oI big shopping malls 2005: 100 |BBC, Oct 2005|
- expected number oI big shopping malls 2007: 360 |BBC, Oct
2005|
- richest Indian according to Forbes list oI 587 billionaires 2004:
Azim Premji (58th
place on list, net worth Feb 04: 5.4 bn Euro; Apr 04: 5.8 bn Euro)
|HT Feb 04|
- number oI Indians in the Sunday Times 2004 list oI the 1000
richest people in
Britain: 29 (oI who the richest Indian is No 5 on the list: Steel
magnate Lakshmi Mittal,
worth 3.5 bn GBP) |HT Apr 04|
- richest Indian woman: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw oI Biocon (1,887
crore Rs,
230 million GBP) |HT Apr 04|
- average time it will take to get all clearances in Indian
bureaucracy to set up a
new business: 88 days in India (as compared to 8 days in
Singapore and 11 days in
Hong Kong) |BBC Jun 04|
- average time it will take to clear all Iormalities to close a Iirm iI it
becomes
insolvent: more than 11 years in India (as compared to less than 7
months in Singapore
and one year in Hong Kong) |BBC Jun 04|

stats on Indian import, export and domestic market
- * estimated value oI the matchmaking and marriage industry: Rs
50,000-80,000 crore
(approx 6.25-10 bn GBP) |EB Jan 07|
- * growth oI the matchmaking and marriage industry: 25 per
year |EB Jan 07|
- * number oI marriages perIormed in India: 1 crore (10 million)
|EB Jan 07|
- * minimum spending on weddings: by middle-income Iamily in
India:
approx Rs 140 lakh (34,000 USD) -- by equivalent American
Iamily in the US:
approx Rs 100 lakh (26,000 USD) |IND Dec 06|
- * value oI the online matchmaking industry:
Iinancial year 2006-07: expected 90 crore Rs (11.5m GBP) --
Iinancial year 2005-06: estimated 58 crore Rs (7.4m GBP) |EI
Jan 07|
more on online matchmaking industry see e-commerce (Telecom
& IT)
- vehicle export: 221,000 (April - September 2003)
- cars sold in the month oI August 2003: 53,177
- units sold by motorcycle company Hero Honda in 2003-2004:
2.07 million (with a
turnover oI 5,997 crore Rs, equiv to 1.15 billion Euro) |HT Apr
2004|
- India mercury imports: 531 tonnes per annum
- India's consumption oI globally produced mercury: 50
- increase oI gold jewellery exports Irom India Irom 2003 to 2004:
68 (to 2 bn Euro
a year till Mar 04) |HT May 04|
- share oI US as destination Ior India's gold jewellery exports: 40
(2004)
- India's annual import oI scrap metal: 3.65 m metric tonnes (worth
580 million Euro)
|BBC Oct 04|
- number oI containers Iilled with metal scrap arriving in India's
ports: 500 containers
per day |BBC Oct 04|
- amount oI hazardous and potentially hazardous wastes entering
India illegally
1998-1999: 100,887 tonnes (acc to Greenpeace) |BBC Sep 2000|


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data sources & key:
AT: Asia Times, BBC: BBC online, BRIT: Britannica 2002, BSNL:
BSNL Telecom Trends, BSt: Business Standard, CIA: CIA
Factbook India, CIN: censusindia.net, CNEI: Chandigarh Newsline,
c/net: c/net news, ConSu: Content Sutra DI: Daily India, DNA:
DNA India, EB: EquityBull, EI: ExpressIndia, EW:
EconomyWatch, FE: Financial Express, FL: Frontline, GG: Gujarat
Global, GTF: Global Technology Forum, GBoWR: Guinness Book
oI World Records, HT: Hindustan Times, ID: IndiaDaily, IInIoLine:
India InIoLine IND: The Independent, ITo: India Today, NPBS:
Nature PBS, PhO: PhysOrg, RED: RediII, REU: Reuters, SiIy: SiIy
Broadband, TH: The Hindu, TNJ: The News (Jang), ToI: Times oI
India, TT: The Tribune,