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India — Market Overview

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🇮🇳 India

India trades as one of the clearest structural-growth stories in public markets, but the quality of that story still depends on capex execution, credit discipline, and whether earnings can keep up with valuation ambition. Investors usually read India through domestic demand, infrastructure and manufacturing investment, and the durability of financial deepening across banks, households, and public markets.

Regional map

Key facts

India at a glance

Capital

New Delhi

Currency

Indian Rupee (₹)

Primary exchange

NSE

Central bank

Reserve Bank of India

Region

Asia

Time zone

Asia/Kolkata

Source: MOSPI,

Country dashboard

Why this market matters

This version combines a stylized country map with a switchable macro explorer built from official published history, using OECD primary datasets where available and World Bank annual series where coverage is otherwise incomplete.

Macro explorer

Switch variables, keep the country context

These country charts now use official OECD quarterly and monthly history where the feed is actually published, with government debt added from the World Bank when a stable public series exists. Variables without dependable republishable coverage are left out instead of being interpolated, so each page shows fewer lines only when the source coverage is genuinely thinner.

GDP

Nominal GDP shown as bars.

INR 50TINR 100TINR 150TINR 200T201020112012201320142015201620172018
Click a year to zoom from that point.

Available variables

GDP

INR 189T
1Y trend+10.6%
Avg growth+12.0%

What This Signals

This view isolates nominal GDP, which is useful for seeing the economy's absolute scale instead of a growth rate or ratio.

Trade and external position

Exports, services, and external balance

Instead of a generic macro-card wall, this section focuses on how the country earns demand from abroad, where its trade edge sits, and how the external balance is evolving.

Total trade India₹1.8T
Goods
Services
Goods
Services
Export₹817.8B
₹987.6BImport
External Balance2024
Exports +₹817.8B
Imports -₹987.6B
Balance+₹169.8B
₹817.8B
Total exports

The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand India is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.

₹442.9B
Goods exports

This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.

₹374.9B
Services exports

This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where India is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.

Trade composition

What the country exports

Trade partners

Where the country trades

Commodity lens

Raw-material exposure

Goods share of exports54.2%

Goods made up 54.2% of total exports in 2024, leaving services at 45.8%.

Goods share of imports72.7%

Goods made up 72.7% of total imports in 2024, leaving services at 27.3%.

Largest export goods bucketManufactures 65.7%

This was the biggest WTO merchandise export group for India in 2024.

Largest import goods bucketManufactures 45.6%

This was the biggest WTO merchandise import group for India in 2024.

Merchandise balance$-275.4B

Goods exports minus goods imports in 2024. A deficit here shows whether merchandise trade supports or drags on the overall external balance.

What to watch

Reading framework

01

domestic demand

India should first be read through domestic demand. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.

02

investment cycle

Investors usually read India through domestic demand, infrastructure and manufacturing investment, and the durability of financial deepening across banks, households, and public markets. That makes investment cycle one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.

03

financial deepening

The final layer is financial deepening, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the NIFTY 50.

Other countries

Continue across Asia

Each card opens the same country template with its own map, switchable macro variables, and benchmark view. This is the first linked network of country pages across the region.