some figures on employment
- number of regular employees of Indian Railways in 1997: 1,583,614 (standing
world record 2004) [GWR]
- number of people applying for 22,000 jobs advertised by the Indian Railway (2003):
740,000
- planned number of staff of Reuters news agency to work in Bangalore by 2006:
1,500 (or 10 % of Reuter's total workforce) [BBC Oct 04]
- number of 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 % of work force [approx 2003]
- employed in agriculture: 50 % (2003)
- employment growth in agriculture: 0.01 % (2003)
employment in IT and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing)
- * number of people employed in overall IT industry in India (end 2006):
1.3 million directly -- 3 million indirectly [BBC Jan 07]
- staff employed in ITES-BPO : 2002/03: 171,100 -- 2003/04: 245,100
(ITES-BPO: IT enabled Services - Business Process Outsourcing) [GTF; 2005]
- staff employed in outsourced customer service: 2002/03: 65,000 -- 2003/04: 95,000
[GTF; 2005]
- annual employee attrition (staff turnover) in voice based BPO (i.e. outsourced
call centres): up to 70-80% in some voice BPOs [GTF; Jan 2006
- * number of people applying at Infosys in Bangalore: 1.4 million in 2006 [BBC Jan 07]
- * number of workers hired by Infosys in Bangalore per year: 30,000 [BBC Jan 07]
- * people employed by three major Indian IT firms (Infosys, 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 firms: Wipro: 11,000 -- TCS: 20,000
[BBC Jan 07]
- annual salary hike in IT services 2003: 14% [2004]
- * levels of pay for legal professionals in India as used in LPO
(Legal Process Outsourcing): 10% - 15% of that of US lawyers [DNA May 06]
- * standard salary for 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 of Haryana, but more considered a
suburb of Delhi): 8,000 to 14,000 Rupees per month [2004]
- * number of members of WBITSA (West Bengali organisation representing
IT worker's rights): 500 [BBC Jan 07]
- * number of IT workers in West Bengal: 2006: 40,000 (incl. call centre staff)
[BBC Jan 07] -- 2004: 20,000 [BBC Oct 04]
statistics on income, wages, labour force etc
- average per capita income (GNI): 470 US Dollar (2003)
- average per capita income in Bihar: 4,616 Rupees (approx 80 Euro)
- official minimum wage in Jammu & Kashmir state: 1,800 Rs per month (or
60 Rupees per day, equiv to 1.2 Euro per day) for simple labourer
- official 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 of India's labour force: 1.9 % per year [BBC Jul 04]
- growth of job creation between 1994-2000: 1.07 % per annum
- estimate of wage increase over the next four decades: 800 % (estimate by IMF)
[BBC Jul 04]
- number of cabin crew working for Air India: 1,600 [BBC, Jan 2006]
- salary of senior Air Hostess in India: up to 75,000 Rs per month [BBC, Jan 2006]
- percentage of Air India's cabin crew being overweight or obese: 20 % [BBC, Jan 06]
- expected increase of passengers in the Indian aviation market: approx 45 million
over next 5 years [BBC, Jan 2006]
- monthly salary of 5 year old Police Officer in Chattisgarh: 2,500 Rs (the boy took
over the job from his father when he died, responsible for filing and bringing tea)
[BBC, Sep 2005]
- number of children working in Tamil Nadu districts of Kanchipuram and
Thiruvanamalai in silk industry: 10,000 estimate [BBC; Aug 2005]
- Indian child labourers: between 10.25 % to 19.90 % of all Indian children aged 9-15
[BBC; Aug 2005]
Indian IT industry & outsourcing / off-shoring (BPO) related data
- * contribution to India's GDP by Business Process Outsourcing (BPO):
estimated for Financial Year 2007: 5.4% -- Financial Year 2006: 4.8% [FE Jan 07]
- * exports of BPO services: 2006: 13bn GBP -- expected 2010: 30bn GBP [BBC Jan 07]
- * export of software services and IT-BPO in financial year 2006-07 according
to Nasscom: approx 16.3bn GBP (31bn USD) [FE Jan 07]
- * increase of world wide share of the global outsourcing market by Indian
companies: within the last 4 years from 0.5% to 7% [BBC Jan 07]
- revenue from BPO & call centres in fiscal year 2004-05: 5.2bn USD [c/net; Jun 05]
- revenue from export of software and services industry in fiscal year 2004-05:
17.2bn USD [c/net; Jun 2005]
- total revenue in software industry in fiscal year 2003-04: 15.9bn USD [GTF; 2005]
- export of goods and services of India's IT and outsourcing industries in fiscal
year 2003-04: 7 billion GBP [BBC sep 04]
- revenue percentage of software industry exports 2003-04: 78% [GTF; 2005]
- contribution of outsourcing to India's total software exports: 29 % [BBC sep 04]
- Bangalore's (Karnataka's state capital) revenue from overseas outsourcing: 32 %
of India's total overseas outsourcing revenue of 10 bn Euro [BBC Sep 04]
- * value of shares sold in 1999 by Bangalore based company Infosys:
approx 37 million GBP [BBC Jan 07]
- * current market value of major IT firms: Infosys: 17 billion GBP --
Wipro: 13bn GBP -- TCS: 13bn GBP (all figures approximately, with exchange rate
1.9 USD = 1 GBP) [BBC Jan 07]
- * current annual revenue of major IT firms: Infosys: 1.1 billion GBP --
Wipro: 1.2bn GBP -- TCS: 1.6bn GBP (all figures approximately,
with exchange rate 1.9 USD = 1 GBP) [BBC Jan 07]
- * area of the Infosys campus in Bangalore: 40 acres [BBC Jan 07]
- * number of major international companies which have IT operations in
Bangalore: more than 500 [BBC Jan 07]
- * concentration of IT sector in Bangalore: 40 percent of the whole of
India's IT industry [BBC Jan 07]
- * population in Bangalore: estimate for 2015: 10m -- 2006: 6.5m -- 1990: 2.8m --
1970: 1.6m [BBC Jan 07]
- * expected future share by India of the emerging global KPO market: 70% of
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 of Indian economy for 2006-07: approx 9% [BBC Jan 07]
- * growth of Indian economy or GDP (Gross Domestic Product): 2005-06: 9% --
2006-07: 7.4% [DNA Jan 07]
- * economic growth in the manufacturing 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 of India's GDP coming from services, manufacturing and industry:
77 percent [DNA Dec 06]
- * contribution to India's economy by the nearly 70% of the population living
off the land: 23 percent [DNA Dec 06]
- * Gross Domestic Savings (GDS): 2005-06: 32.4% of GDP -- 2004-05: 31.1% of GDP
- * yearly foreign investment: 2006: 6.3bn GBP estimate -- 2005: 4.2bn GBP --
2004: 2.1bn GBP [BBC Jan 07]
- economic growth in 2003: about 7 %
- growth of India's economy in the year 2004 to March: 8.2 % (the country's fastest
expansion in 15 years) [BBC Jul 04]
some data on government income and spending
- Indian foreign exchange reserves: March 2005: 137.55 bn USD [Rediff; Mar 05] --
mid Dec 2005: 144.05 bn USD -- end Dec 2005: 137.2 bn USD [IInfoLine; Jan 2006]
- India's Gold reserves end Dec 2005: 5.27 bn USD [IInfoLine; Jan 2006]
- India forex reserves 2004: over 80 billion Euro (cash + foreign investment)
- corporate tax rate: 35.88 % [GTF; 2005]
- VAT tax rate: 12.5 % [GTF; 2005]
- rate of inflation: 3.8 % [GTF; 2005] -- earlier about 6 % [BBC Jul 04]
- number of tax payers: 20 million (2 % of 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 of income tax: 10 % (at annual income between 50,000 and 60,000 Rs,
equiv to 960-1150 Euro) [BBC Jul 04]
- top rate of income tax: 30 % (at annual income above 150,000 Rs,
equiv to 2880 Euro) [BBC Jul 04]
- increase of government 's gross tax collection for time period April - October 2003:
8.89 % up from previous year
- increase of 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 figures
- * India's share of 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 of companies comprising the biotech industry 2006: 280 [DNA Jan 07]
- percentage of organised retail sector in total retail sales: 3 % [BBC, Oct 2005]
- number of shopping malls 5 years ago: 0 (no malls, only shopping arcades existed)
[BBC, Oct 2005]
- number of shopping malls functional or under construction in Gurgaon 2004: 8
[HT Feb 2004]
- number of big shopping malls 2005: 100 [BBC, Oct 2005]
- expected number of big shopping malls 2007: 360 [BBC, Oct 2005]
- richest Indian according to Forbes list of 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 of Indians in the Sunday Times 2004 list of the 1000 richest people in
Britain: 29 (of 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 of 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 formalities to close a firm if 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 of the matchmaking and marriage industry: Rs 50,000-80,000 crore
(approx 6.25-10 bn GBP) [EB Jan 07]
- * growth of the matchmaking and marriage industry: 25% per year [EB Jan 07]
- * number of marriages performed in India: 1 crore (10 million) [EB Jan 07]
- * minimum spending on weddings: by middle-income family in India:
approx Rs 140 lakh (34,000 USD) -- by equivalent American family in the US:
approx Rs 100 lakh (26,000 USD) [IND Dec 06]
- * value of the online matchmaking industry:
financial year 2006-07: expected 90 crore Rs (11.5m GBP) --
financial 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 of August 2003: 53,177
- units sold by motorcycle company Hero Honda in 2003-2004: 2.07 million (with a
turnover of 5,997 crore Rs, equiv to 1.15 billion Euro) [HT Apr 2004]
- India mercury imports: 531 tonnes per annum
- India's consumption of globally produced mercury: 50 %
- increase of gold jewellery exports from India from 2003 to 2004: 68 % (to 2 bn Euro
a year till Mar 04) [HT May 04]
- share of US as destination for India's gold jewellery exports: 40 % (2004)
- India's annual import of scrap metal: 3.65 m metric tonnes (worth 580 million Euro)
[BBC Oct 04]
- number of containers filled with metal scrap arriving in India's ports: 500 containers
per day [BBC Oct 04]
- amount of hazardous and potentially hazardous wastes entering India illegally
1998-1999: 100,887 tonnes (acc to Greenpeace) [BBC Sep 2000]
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