The Reserve Bank’s annual ‘Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy’ is a comprehensive source of data on a range of macroeconomic and financial variables (viz., output, prices, money, banking, financial markets, public finance, foreign trade, balance of payments and select socio-economic indicators) at multiple frequencies. Researchers, analysts, and students use this resource, including its near real-time on-line version, for tracking India’s economic progress as well as for empirical research and analysis. Over the years, the coverage of the Handbook has increased. This Handbook, the 27th in the series, includes 244 statistical tables contributed by various Departments of the Bank that produce macro-financial statistics. The time series in the Handbook and several other RBI publications are accessible on the Reserve Bank’s data portal, the Database on Indian Economy (weblink: https://data.rbi.org.in). The Handbook is also available on the RBIDATA mobile app, launched by RBI on February 18, 2025. Users can access over 11,000 macroeconomic and financial data series from the DBIE through the app. In addition, 8,090 other data series have been incorporated into the app. The publication is compiled by the Data Management and Dissemination Division (DMDD) of the Department of Statistics and Information Management (DSIM), under the overall guidance of Shri Anujit Mitra, Adviser-in-Charge, and Shri N Senthil Kumar, Adviser. The dedicated efforts of the DMDD team, led by Dr. Manjusha Senapati, Director, along with Smt. Jolly Roy and Dr. Prabha Jadav, Assistant Advisers; Shri Srijan Hazra and Shri Sanju Das, Managers; Shri Ajay Kumar, Assistant Manager; and Ms. Pooja N. Nile, Assistant, ensured consistent updates of the online version throughout the year, as well as the release of this Handbook 15 days ahead of schedule. Your valued comments, suggestions, and feedback on the Handbook can be sent to the following address: The Director, DMDD, Department of Statistics and Information Management, Reserve Bank of India, C-9, 3rd Floor, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai 400051, and via email or by accessing the ‘feedback’ link on the Bank’s data portal https://data.rbi.org.in. Your input is essential in our ongoing efforts to improve the quality and usefulness of our resources. Sd/-
(A R Joshi)
Executive Director
August 29, 2025 |