Missing millions
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.
EconomicsScience
Data For India.
Insights, charts, and data that expand understanding of India.
Recent essays
22 of 22More than a quarter of rural households have no separate kitchen
Our weekly newsletter bringing you one chart about India, and the story behind the data.
Formally stuck
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.
How India's GDP adds up, and what has changed
The measurement of India's GDP, and changes to the methodology in 2026, have been widely discussed globally. In this piece we lay out how India's GDP is calculated, and enumerate the recent changes and their implications.
The choice of baseline affects how we see warming
Our weekly newsletter bringing you one chart about India, and the story behind the data.
Death, on average
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.
Graduates in India
A growing share of adult Indians now have an undergraduate degree. In this article, we examine what India's undergraduates are studying, where they graduate from, and how this compares with other countries.
Women's absence from India's workforce is most evident in their 20s
Our weekly newsletter bringing you one chart about India, and the story behind the data.
Introducing Data Bytes: One chart about India every week
Our new weekly format brings Data For India’s research depth to smaller, sharper questions about India, one chart at a time.
India's dependency ratio will soon rise for the first time in 70 years
Our weekly newsletter bringing you one chart about India, and the story behind the data.
The usage of tobacco is much higher in India's central and eastern states
Our weekly newsletter bringing you one chart about India, and the story behind the data.
Five states contribute to 96% of court cases older than 20 years
Our weekly newsletter bringing you one chart about India, and the story behind the data.
Poverty of thought
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.
Labour, lockups and lookup
Our monthly newsletter covering the latest work, new platform features and key updates from Data For India.
The twilight of our youth
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.
Sewing solo
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.
India's prison population
India has one of the world's largest prison populations, but a low incarceration rate. However, the vast majority of its prison population has not yet been convicted of a crime.
Legal burdens
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.
Regional temperature trends in India
Despite a clear national warming trend, the various regions of India are seeing temperatures change in very different ways. Some of the largest changes are being felt in the most ecologically sensitive areas.
The Roaring Twenties
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.
Heat, health and households
Our monthly newsletter covering the latest work, new platform features and key updates from Data For India.
Full stack
Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox.