What are the top causes of death from communicable diseases in India? Read Rukmini S' piece to find out: www.dataforindia.com/indias-disea...
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Cancer kills over 6% of Indians every year, with a higher contribution to mortality among those in their late 40s and early 50s in particular. 15% of deaths of women aged 30-54 are from cancer.
Among non-communicable diseases, heart disease is the largest contributor to Indian mortality and is now responsible for one in three deaths. From middle age onwards as the relative risk from infectious diseases declines, age and factors including obesity and hypertension put people at greater risk.
India is in the midst of this epidemiological transition. Non-communicable diseases account for over half of all deaths in India as of 2022, the latest year for which this data is available.
Title: Heart disease is responsible for nearly one in three deaths in India Sub-title: Top 5 causes of death for non-communicable diseases, over time Explanation: A line chart shows the share of total deaths in India from the top five non-communicable disease categories from 2005 to 2022. Cardiovascular diseases rise steadily from about 20% in 2005 to just over 30% by 2022, remaining the largest contributor throughout. Cancers and respiratory diseases are around 6% in 2022. Digestive diseases stay near 5% in 2022. Diabetes mellitus rises from roughly 2% in 2005 to about 4% by 2022. Source: Causes of Death reports, Sample Registration System, RGI Attribution: Data For India | CC BY
🧵 As a country gets richer and simultaneously ages, deaths from communicable diseases and conditions related to childbirth become more preventable and less common. Consequently, the relative share of deaths from non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and cancer begins to rise.
How does the ability to use computers vary by age group and gender in India? Read Abhishek Waghmare’s piece to find out: www.dataforindia.com/computers/?u...
While the proportion of rural adults who can use a computer has increased, it still stands at just about one in six. Among urban adults, the figure is much higher with over one in three adults, but it has grown only marginally over the last decade.
This share is roughly twice the share of households that own a computer, suggesting that many people may have learned to use a computer, or use one in college or at work, without owning one themselves.
India has also made limited progress in the ability to use computers over the last decade. A little over one in five adults, or 200 million people, were able to operate a computer as of 2025.
Among the 30 million households in India that own a computer, 90% have a laptop, while 20% own a desktop. A little under 10% of computer-owning households report having both a laptop and a desktop.
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Title: The share of Indian adults who can use computers has grown very little over the last decade Sub-title: Share of adults who can use a computer (2014 vs 2025) Explanation: The share of adults who can use a computer in 2014 and 2025, for urban and rural India. Urban: 30% in 2014 and 36% in 2025. Rural: 9% in 2014 and 15% in 2025. Note: Respondents were asked whether they were able to use any device among desktop computers, laptops, tablets, palmtops, and notebooks. Source: NSS Round 71, Social Consumption on Education survey (2014) and Comprehensive Modular Survey - Telecom (CMS-T, 2025), National Statistics Office Attribution: Data For India | CC BY
🧵 While most Indian households now own a mobile phone, computer ownership in India has grown slowly. Over the last two decades, the share of households that own a computer has increased from just over 1% to just over 9%. In most developed countries, by contrast, computer ownership exceeds 75%.
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How much economic value does organised manufacturing create across different regions in India? Read Ishan Deodhar and Abhishek Waghmare’s piece to find out: www.dataforindia.com/manufacturin...
Tamil Nadu is India's apparel manufacturing hub, with more than one in three apparel factory workers in the state alone.
The manufacture of basic metals is largely confined to the mineral-rich states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, as well as Maharashtra and Gujarat.
The manufacture of food products is widely dispersed throughout the country, with Maharashtra being the leading employer. Tamil Nadu followed by Gujarat are India's textile manufacturing hubs.
The manufacture of food products employs the most Indian factory workers, accounting for over two million jobs. The manufacture of textiles and wearing apparel are other key sources of factory jobs, collectively employing over three million people.
Title: The textile, apparel and food product industries employ more than a quarter of all factory workers in India Sub-title: Top employers of organised manufacturing workforce in India (2023) Explanation: Food products employ the most workers (2.1 million), followed by textiles (1.7 million) and basic metals (1.4 million). Apparel (1.3 million) and vehicles (1.3 million) come next. Machinery (1.1 million) and chemicals (1.1 million) follow, then non-metallic mineral products (1.0 million). Rubber and plastic products (948,210) and pharmaceuticals (925,811) round out the top 10. Together, these ten sectors employ 70% of factory workers in manufacturing. Source: Annual Survey of Industries, 2022-23, MoSPI Attribution: Data For India | CC BY
🧵 Organised manufacturing accounts for the majority of economic value added through manufacturing and employed 18.5 million people in over 200,000 factories in 2024.
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How does internet access in India look across different income and education levels? Read Abhishek Waghmare’s analysis to find out: www.dataforindia.com/comm-tech/?u...
Internet usage is higher among more urban, better educated and richer Indians, and more among men than women. Internet usage is also rising steadily - the share of Indian teenagers using the internet is double that of Indians above the age of 60 using it.
Alongside household access, the usage of the internet has grown too. As of 2023, nearly six in ten Indians had used the internet at least once in the last three months, according to a nationally representative survey.
Household surveys point to a similar expansion of household-level internet access; only 2% of homes in India had internet access in 2009, but once mobile broadband entered the space, the pace of access accelerated. By 2023, this had increased to 76% of households.
Title: Mobile broadband is the chief source of the internet in India Sub-title: Wired and mobile internet subscribers in India, over time Explanation: Mobile broadband subscriptions began rising rapidly after 2012 and now make up almost all broadband connections. Wired broadband has grown slowly by comparison, remaining a small share even as total connections reached close to 1 billion by 2024. Source: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (accessed via NDAP). Note: 2024 data is up to August; prior to 2012, mobile internet in India was too slow to be classified as broadband. Attribution: Data For India | CC BY
🧵 The rise of mobile phones powered access to the internet in India. In the ten years from 2014 to 2024, India added 30 million wired internet connections. In the same time, India added nearly 900 million mobile broadband connections.
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Driven by the southern states, bottled water has become a key source of drinking water in urban India, now serving 15% of households nationally.
How does bottled water use compare in rural India? Read Rukmini S’ analysis to find out: www.dataforindia.com/access-to-dr...
In urban Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, over a quarter of households get their drinking water primarily from bottled water. In Kerala, on the other hand, household wells are the most important source of drinking water.
However, there are some key peculiarities at the state level. Bottled water (which includes home-delivered cans of water) has become an important source of drinking water in the southern states.
Nearly seven in ten households across urban India use tap water as their principal source of drinking water. The principal source refers to the one from which most of the drinking water was obtained by the household during the last 365 days.
The most recent data on access to drinking water in India comes from the 79th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS), conducted in 2022-23.
Title: Bottled water has become a key drinking water source in urban India, driven by the southern states Sub-title: Share of urban households with bottled water as principal drinking source, by state (2023) Explanation: Nearly 7 in 10 urban households primarily use tap/piped water. Bottled water now serves about 15% of urban households nationally, driven by higher use in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, where over a quarter of households rely on it. Kerala stands out, with wells as the leading source. Source: National Sample Survey (NSS), 79th round (2022–23) Attribution: Data For India | CC BY
🧵 Nearly 95% of Indian households have access to basic drinking water, a rate of progress that has surpassed the world's average. Tap or piped water is the single largest source of drinking water for urban Indians.
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What do malaria death rates look like across different states in India? Read Nileena Suresh’s piece to find out: www.dataforindia.com/malaria-in-i...