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Defence exports against defence production

medium

Exports as a share of what India builds. The gap is the domestic absorption of Indian defence output.

050k100k150k200kFY14FY17FY19FY21FY23FY25FY26
Defence exportsDefence production

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

high

How much of the defence budget actually buys equipment rather than paying salaries and pensions.

0200k400k600k800k1MFY15FY25FY26FY27
Ministry of Defence budget allocationDefence capital outlay

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

low

Investment announced via MoU versus investment actually on the ground.

Uttar PradeshTamil Nadu010k20k30k40k50k
Defence corridor investment committedDefence corridor investment grounded

Roughly 15% of committed corridor investment has been grounded. This single chart is the best corrective to announcement-driven infrastructure reporting.

sourceIndian MastermindsSwarajyaverified 2026-08-17

Highway network length against annual construction

high

Network growth includes re-designating existing state roads. Annual construction is what was actually built.

050k100k150k200kFY14FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
National highway network lengthNational highways constructed per year

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

medium

Installed capacity versus throughput across all Indian ports.

01k2k3k4kFY15FY26
Total port capacityCargo handled at all 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

high

Where India's export growth actually comes from.

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Merchandise exportsServices exports

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

medium

Physical airports versus the routes meant to make them viable.

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Operational airportsUDAN routes inaugurated

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

medium

India's share of global arms imports against Russia's share of Indian imports.

02040608010–1420–24
India's share of global major-arms importsRussia's share of India's arms 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

high

Value of defence goods and services exported from India, as reported by the Ministry of Defence. Counts authorisations realised, not order book.

38.4k010k20k30k40k50kFY14FY18FY20FY22FY24FY26

Nominal rupees, not inflation-adjusted. Roughly a third of the 2013-14 to 2025-26 growth is rupee inflation and depreciation.

Defence production

medium

Total value of defence items produced in India by DPSUs, other PSUs and private firms in a fiscal year.

050k100k150k200kFY15FY20FY21FY24FY25FY26

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

medium

Share of total defence production value contributed by private firms rather than DPSUs and other public undertakings.

0510152025FY24FY25

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

high

Share of defence export value originating from private firms rather than DPSUs.

020406080FY24FY25

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

high

Count of export authorisations issued by the Department of Defence Production in a fiscal year.

05001k1.5k2kFY24FY25

An authorisation is a permission to export, not a completed sale. Counts breadth of exporter participation rather than value.

Ministry of Defence budget allocation

high

Total Union Budget allocation to the Ministry of Defence, including defence pensions and civil expenditure.

0200k400k600k800k1MFY15FY25FY26FY27

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

high

Budget line for capital acquisition and infrastructure — the portion that buys new equipment rather than paying salaries and pensions.

050k100k150k200kFY25FY26

This is the single most informative defence budget line: it is what actually modernises the force.

Estimated nuclear warhead inventory

low

Independent expert estimate of India's total nuclear warhead stockpile as of January each year.

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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

low

India against comparator countries. Independent expert estimate of India's total nuclear warhead stockpile as of January each year.

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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

medium

India's share of world imports of major conventional weapons, measured by SIPRI trend-indicator value over rolling five-year windows.

8.32020-20240246810

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

medium

Share of India's major-arms imports supplied by Russia, over rolling five-year windows.

02040608010–1420–24

The halving of Russian dependence since 2010-14 is one of the clearest structural shifts in Indian defence procurement.

Defence corridor investment committed

low

Investment committed via MoU to each defence industrial corridor.

42.1k32.7kUttar PradeshTamil Nadu010k20k30k40k50k

Committed is not grounded. Against roughly ₹70,000 crore of commitments across both corridors, grounded investment is about ₹10,855 crore — around 15%.

sourceIndian MastermindsSwarajyaverified 2026-08-17

Defence corridor investment grounded

low

Investment actually deployed on the ground in each defence industrial corridor.

4.4k6.4kUttar PradeshTamil Nadu02k4k6k8k

This is the number that matters, and the one rarely quoted. Grounded investment runs at roughly 15% of committed.

sourceIndian MastermindsSwarajyaverified 2026-08-17

Defence industrial corridors by status

low

Count of announced defence industrial corridors by delivery status.

22OperationalAnnounced00.511.522.5

Two corridors (UP, Tamil Nadu) are operating with land allotted and units producing. Two more (Maharashtra, Assam) are announced but not established.

sourceIndian MastermindsSwarajyaverified 2026-08-17

Defence corridor nodes

low

Count of designated nodal industrial locations within each established defence corridor.

65Uttar PradeshTamil Nadu02468

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.

sourceSwarajyaverified 2026-08-17

Direct jobs created in UP defence corridor

low

Direct employment reported at units established in the Uttar Pradesh defence industrial corridor.

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Reported against a stated potential of 50,000 jobs — actual delivery is around a quarter of that.

sourceIndian Mastermindsverified 2026-08-17