High Frequency Indicators · Foreign Trade · DGCI&S

The Trade Ledger

Every dollar and rupee India exports and imports — split into oil and everything else, and the gap between the two — going back to 1986-87. Switch the currency and watch how much of the “growth” is really the rupee sliding against the dollar.

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by Tushar Gupta · India, in Numbers — No Rhetoric, Just Data

Source: Reserve Bank of India, Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy — Table 114 (India's Foreign Trade, US Dollar) and Table 115 (Rupees) for exports, imports and the trade balance split into oil and non-oil, and Table 136 (Exchange Rate, financial-year average) for the rupee–dollar line. Underlying trade data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S). 1986-87 to 2024-25; 2024-25 provisional, 2023-24 revised. Values are gross of re-exports. Retrieved July 2026.

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