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Defence exports against defence production
mediumExports as a share of what India builds. The gap is the domestic absorption of Indian defence output.
Exports are around 15% of production value. India builds mainly for itself; the export story is real but small against the domestic order book.
Defence budget against capital outlay
highHow much of the defence budget actually buys equipment rather than paying salaries and pensions.
Capital outlay sits near 26-27% of the budget. Revenue expenditure — pay and pensions — crowds out modernisation, and this ratio has barely moved in a decade.
Defence corridors: committed against grounded investment
lowInvestment announced via MoU versus investment actually on the ground.
Roughly 15% of committed corridor investment has been grounded. This single chart is the best corrective to announcement-driven infrastructure reporting.
Highway network length against annual construction
highNetwork growth includes re-designating existing state roads. Annual construction is what was actually built.
Construction has plateaued around 10,000-12,000 km a year since the FY2020-21 peak, even as headline network length keeps rising.
Port capacity against cargo actually handled
mediumInstalled capacity versus throughput across all Indian ports.
Utilisation is around 59%. There is real headroom for trade growth, and weak near-term returns on further capacity spending.
Merchandise against services exports
highWhere India's export growth actually comes from.
Services grew 8.71% in FY2025-26 while goods grew 0.93%. India's export engine is offices, not factories — the opposite of the manufacturing-led story usually told.
Airports built against UDAN routes started
mediumPhysical airports versus the routes meant to make them viable.
Route counts are cumulative inaugurations. A material share lapsed once the three-year viability-gap subsidy expired, so the operating network is smaller than the cumulative figure suggests.
Arms import dependence and supplier concentration
mediumIndia's share of global arms imports against Russia's share of Indian imports.
Supplier diversification is the clearest structural win: Russia fell from 72% to 36% of Indian arms imports in a decade. India is nonetheless still the world's second-largest importer.
Defence exports
highValue of defence goods and services exported from India, as reported by the Ministry of Defence. Counts authorisations realised, not order book.
Nominal rupees, not inflation-adjusted. Roughly a third of the 2013-14 to 2025-26 growth is rupee inflation and depreciation.
Defence production
mediumTotal value of defence items produced in India by DPSUs, other PSUs and private firms in a fiscal year.
FY2024-25 was first announced as ₹1,50,590 crore and later restated to ~₹1.54 lakh crore once remaining private-sector returns were counted. The revised figure is shown and flagged.
Private sector share of defence production
mediumShare of total defence production value contributed by private firms rather than DPSUs and other public undertakings.
Direction of 'good' is genuinely contested: a higher private share signals a broader industrial base, but says nothing about whether the output is indigenous or competitively priced.
Private sector share of defence exports
highShare of defence export value originating from private firms rather than DPSUs.
Much of the private share is components and sub-assemblies feeding foreign primes, not finished platforms sold under an Indian badge.
Defence export authorisations issued
highCount of export authorisations issued by the Department of Defence Production in a fiscal year.
An authorisation is a permission to export, not a completed sale. Counts breadth of exporter participation rather than value.
Ministry of Defence budget allocation
highTotal Union Budget allocation to the Ministry of Defence, including defence pensions and civil expenditure.
Includes pensions, which are roughly a fifth of the total and buy no new capability. Comparisons with China's or America's budgets that ignore this overstate India's usable defence spend.
Defence capital outlay
highBudget line for capital acquisition and infrastructure — the portion that buys new equipment rather than paying salaries and pensions.
This is the single most informative defence budget line: it is what actually modernises the force.
Estimated nuclear warhead inventory
lowIndependent expert estimate of India's total nuclear warhead stockpile as of January each year.
India publishes nothing about its arsenal. Every figure here is an external estimate inferred from fissile-material production and delivery systems, with an error bar SIPRI itself describes as significant.
Estimated nuclear warhead inventory — international comparison
lowIndia against comparator countries. Independent expert estimate of India's total nuclear warhead stockpile as of January each year.
India publishes nothing about its arsenal. Every figure here is an external estimate inferred from fissile-material production and delivery systems, with an error bar SIPRI itself describes as significant.
India's share of global major-arms imports
mediumIndia's share of world imports of major conventional weapons, measured by SIPRI trend-indicator value over rolling five-year windows.
SIPRI's trend-indicator value measures military capability transferred, not money paid. It is not comparable to customs data.
Russia's share of India's arms imports
mediumShare of India's major-arms imports supplied by Russia, over rolling five-year windows.
The halving of Russian dependence since 2010-14 is one of the clearest structural shifts in Indian defence procurement.
Defence corridor investment committed
lowInvestment committed via MoU to each defence industrial corridor.
Committed is not grounded. Against roughly ₹70,000 crore of commitments across both corridors, grounded investment is about ₹10,855 crore — around 15%.
Defence corridor investment grounded
lowInvestment actually deployed on the ground in each defence industrial corridor.
This is the number that matters, and the one rarely quoted. Grounded investment runs at roughly 15% of committed.
Defence industrial corridors by status
lowCount of announced defence industrial corridors by delivery status.
Two corridors (UP, Tamil Nadu) are operating with land allotted and units producing. Two more (Maharashtra, Assam) are announced but not established.
Defence corridor nodes
lowCount of designated nodal industrial locations within each established defence corridor.
Node lists are press-sourced. They are stable and uncontested, but no primary notification was located during verification, so this is graded low rather than treated as a record.
Direct jobs created in UP defence corridor
lowDirect employment reported at units established in the Uttar Pradesh defence industrial corridor.
Reported against a stated potential of 50,000 jobs — actual delivery is around a quarter of that.