Mumbai (19/11/2022): Today, the Reserve Bank of India released the seventh edition of its statistical publication titled “Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2021-22”. Through this publication, the Reserve Bank has been disseminating wide-ranging data on the regional economies of India.
This publication covers sub-national statistics on socio-demographics, state domestic product, agriculture, price and wages, industry, infrastructure, banking and fiscal indicators across Indian states over various time periods ranging from 1951 to 2021-22. In the current edition of the Handbook, two new sections viz., Health and Environment are introduced.
In addition to the updation of the existing data series, 9 new tables have been included on the following indicators:
i) Social and Demographic Indicators
- State-wise Maternal Mortality Ratio, 1999-01 to 2017-19; and
- State-wise Total Fertility Rate, 2003 to 2020.
ii) Health
- State-wise Children Aged 6-59 Months Who are Anaemic, 2005-06 to 2019-21; and
- State-wise Pregnant Women Aged 15-49 Years Who are Anaemic, 1998-99 to 2019-21.
iii) Agriculture
- State-wise Cold Storage Capacity, 2015- 2021.
iv) Environment
- State-wise Forest Cover, 1987 to 2021; and
- State-wise Tree Cover, 2001 to 2021.
v) Infrastructure
- State-wise Total Installed Capacity of Grid Interactive Renewable Power, 2007 to 2021.
vi) Fiscal
- State-wise Outstanding Guarantees of State Governments, 2008 to 2022.
The electronic form of the Handbook can be accessed on www.rbi.org.in.
