Economic Survey in charts: All about your money, jobs & growth

Why get lost in the maze of numbers, jargons and macro-economic variables? We captured the India, as presented in the Economic Survey, and everything about your money, jobs and growth in a more colourful and contextualised canvas. Check it out!

The entire concept of fiscal deficit targetting gets defeated as while centre has tired to stick to its target, states are breaking the norms. Some say targetted revenue deficit could be the answer.



When it's remittance, Gulf matters. Net private remittances declined by $4.5 bn in the first half of 2016- 17 compared to the same period of 2015-16 weighed down by the lagged effects of the oil price decline, which affected inflows from the Gulf region.



Passenger car sales and excise taxes bear little imprint of demonetisation; property markets in the major cities and sales of twowheelers show a marked decline; credit was already looking weak before demonetisation, and that pre-existing trend was reinforced.




Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, and Maharashtra are positive outliers in that they can expect a greater demographic dividend over the coming years.



India is often accused of having a bloated government. But when the size of government expenditure for a group of countries is plotted against their per capita GDP, India sits on the regression line, indicating that it spends as much as can be expected given its level of development.



40 per cent of the corporate debt was owed by companies which had an interest coverage ratio of less than 1, meaning they did not earn enough to pay the interest obligations on their loans.



The weighted average price of real estate in eight major cities, which was already on a declining trend fell further after November 8, 2016. An equilibrium reduction in real estate prices is desirable as it will lead to affordable housing for the middle class, and facilitate labour mobility across India currently impeded by high and unaffordable rents.



India has 7 taxpayers for every 100 voters ranking us 13th amongst 18 of our democratic G-20 peers.