| APPENDIX TABLE 1: MACROECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INDICATORS (Concld.) |
| Item | Average 2003-04 to 2007-08 (5 years) | Average 2009-10 to 2013-14 (5 years) | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| VI. External Sector | | | | | |
| VI.1 Balance of Payments@ | | | | | |
| a) Merchandise Exports (% change) | 25.3 | 12.2 | 9.1 | -5.0 | -15.9 |
| b) Merchandise Imports (% change) | 32.3 | 9.7 | 10.3 | -7.6 | -27.6 |
| c) Trade Balance/GDP (%) | -5.5 | -9.1 | -6.7 | -5.5 | -3.2 |
| d) Invisible Balance/GDP (%) | 5.2 | 5.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.9 |
| e) Current Account Balance/GDP (%) | -0.3 | -3.3 | -2.1 | -0.9 | 1.7 |
| f) Net Capital Flows/GDP (%) | 4.7 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| g) Reserve Changes [(BoP basis) (US $ billion) [(Increase (-)/Decrease (+)] | -40.3 | -6.6 | 3.3 | -59.5 | -83.9 |
| VI.2 External Debt Indicators&&& | | | | | |
| a) External Debt Stock (US$ billion) | 156.5 | 359.0 | 543.1 | 558.2 | 563.5 |
| b) Debt-GDP Ratio (%) | 17.8 | 20.9 | 19.9 | 20.6 | 21.4 |
| c) Import cover of Reserves (in Months) | 14.0 | 8.5 | 9.6 | 12.0 | 18.6 |
| d) Short-term Debt to Total Debt (%) | 13.6 | 21.3 | 20.0 | 19.1 | 18.4 |
| e) Debt Service Ratio (%) | 8.3 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 9.0 |
| f) Reserves to Debt (%) | 113.7 | 84.8 | 76.0 | 85.6 | 104.0 |
| VI.3 Openness Indicators (%)@ | | | | | |
| a) Export plus Imports of Goods/GDP | 30.7 | 41.0 | 31.6 | 27.8 | 24.9 |
| b) Export plus Imports of Goods & Services/GDP | 41.3 | 53.2 | 44.0 | 39.7 | 37.4 |
| c) Current Receipts plus Current Payments/GDP | 47.1 | 59.4 | 49.8 | 45.6 | 43.9 |
| d) Gross Capital Inflows plus Outflows/GDP | 37.3 | 50.4 | 38.2 | 39.6 | 46.1 |
| e) Current Receipts & Payments plus Capital Re-ceipts & Payments/GDP | 84.4 | 109.8 | 87.9 | 85.2 | 89.9 |
| VI.4 Exchange Rate Indicators | | | | | |
| a) Exchange Rate (Rupee/US Dollar) | | | | | |
| End of Period | 43.1 | 51.1 | 69.2 | 75.4 | 73.5 |
| Average | 44.1 | 51.2 | 69.9 | 70.9 | 74.2 |
| b) 40-Currency REER (% change) | 3.1^ | 0.8 | -5.0 | 2.6 | 0.3 |
| c) 40-Currency NEER (% change) | 1.7^ | -4.9 | -5.6 | 0.6 | -4.2 |
| d) 6-Currency REER (% change) | 5.7^ | 2.3 | -5.9 | 3.3 | -1.8 |
| e) 6-Currency NEER (% change) | 2.6^ | -5.1 | -7.2 | 0.8 | -6.8 |
- : Not Available. P: Provisional.
* : Data are at 2011-12 base year series.
** : Data are at 2011-12 base year series for column 2 and 3.
# : Base year for WPI is 2011-12=100 for annual data and 2004-05=100 for average of 5 years inflation. Base for CPI-IW is 2001=100 till August 2020 and 2016=100 from September 2020 onwards.
## : Data for column 2 pertains to April 13, 2007 to March 28, 2008.
### : Outright trading turnover in central government dated securities (based on calendar days).
~ : LAF outstanding as on March 31 (negative means injection).
~~ : Outstanding as on last Friday of the financial year.
$ : Outstanding as on March 31.
& : Data for 2020-21 are revised estimates.
&& : Upto 2019-20 data pertains to all States and Union Territories (UT) with legislatures, while for 2020-21 data are for 17 States/UTs. Data for 2019-20 are provisional accounts and for 2020-21 are revised estimates.
@ : Data in columns 6 are provisional and pertain to April-December 2020.
&&&: Data for 2020-21 are provisional and pertain to end-December 2020.
^ : Average of period 2005-06 to 2007-08.
Note : Base year for 6- and 40-currency NEER/REER indices is 2015-16=100. REER figures are based on Consumer Price Index.
Source : RBI, National Statistical Office, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Food Corporation of India (FCI), Labour Bureau and Budget documents of the central and state governments. |