India Facts & Figures

It doesn’t take much for one to access India’s growth figures from different public portals of information. However, we wish to make the task easier for you with a snapshot of India’s market potential.

With a GDP growth of 9.4% in the year 2006-07, India posted the fastest growth rate in 18 years.

The untapped Indian rural market with 720 million people (35 times the population of Australia) is growing at 25% per annum.

The Food sector grew by 43% in the year 2006-07.

The personal care sector grew by 22% during the same period

The per-capita income of the country has doubled in the last 4 years.

There has been a 10 fold increase in the middle-class population of India. This makes the Indian middle class, independently one of the largest markets in the world.

India is projected to leapfrog from being the 12th largest consumer market in the world in the year 2005 to become the 5th largest by 2010.

The Indian consumer market is set to treble in the next 7 years.

The wellness market is set to grow to US$ 25 billion by the year 2015. (From 6.3 billion in 2005)

India topped the Kearney’s Annual Global Retail Development Index for the 3rd consecutive year in 2007.