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Data Intelligence Report
What Each Indian Gets:
Per Capita Availability, 1960-61 to 2024-25
How much edible oil, vanaspati, sugar, cloth, tea, coffee and household electricity is available per person in India each year. Six decades of change in everyday consumption.
Source: Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution; Tea Board; Coffee Board; Ministry of Textiles; Central Electricity Authority (Table 1.21)
Spotlight
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How Many Times More?
Snapshot year ÷ comparison year, per person. Above 1 means more per person than in the comparison year. Electricity is not available for 2024-25, so 2023-24 is used.
Oil In, Vanaspati Out
Edible oil and vanaspati, kg per person per year
Edible oil covers groundnut, rapeseed & mustard, sesame, nigerseed, soybean and sunflower oils, excluding oil used to make vanaspati. Vanaspati (hydrogenated vegetable fat) is by calendar year.
Cotton vs Man-made Cloth
Cloth available per person per year
Measured in metres up to 1984-85 and square metres from 1985-86, so earlier years are not strictly comparable. Blended fabrics count as man-made after 1969.
A Tea-Drinking Nation
Tea and coffee, grams per person per year
Coffee figures up to 1971-72 are for the coffee season, then calendar years. Coffee is reported as exactly 100 g every year from 2013-14 to 2021-22, which looks like a rounded or held estimate.
Lights On at Home
Domestic electricity, kWh per person per year
Household (domestic) use only, not industry or farming. Not available for 2024-25.
Growth by Decade
Average annual change in per capita availability, %
Compound annual growth between the first and last year of each period. Teal = rising, red = falling; darker = faster. 2020s = 2020-21 to 2024-25 (electricity to 2023-24).
Full Data
Per person per year · click a heading to sort
Follows the period buttons. Years before 2000-01 are every ten years. P = provisional (2024-25), n/a = not available.
Key Findings
78 times the household power
Domestic electricity per person rose from 3.4 kWh in 1960-61 to 264.5 kWh in 2023-24. It doubled between 2010-11 and 2023-24 alone (5.6% a year).
Seven times the cooking oil
Edible oil per person grew from 3.2 kg to 22.7 kg, while vanaspati fell from a peak of 1.4 kg (2001-02) to 0.6 kg. Sugar rose fourfold, from 4.8 to 19.8 kg.
Man-made fibres caught up
Cloth per person tripled to 48 square metres. Man-made fabrics rose from 8% of it in 1960-61 to over half in 2000-01, and are about 46% today.
Tea triples, coffee stands still
Tea per person tripled from 296 g to 891 g, a record. Coffee is about where it was in 1960-61 (80 g then, 83 g now), so tea outweighs it almost 11 to 1.
Sources: Directorate of Sugar & Vegetable Oils, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution; Tea Board; Coffee Board; Ministry of Textiles; Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Power (Table 1.21: Per Capita Availability of Certain Important Articles of Consumption). Notes: Figures are per person per year. 2024-25 is provisional for edible oil, vanaspati, sugar and cloth; electricity is not available for 2024-25. Vanaspati is by calendar year. Sugar is releases for domestic consumption by sugar season; the column header says October–September while the source’s note says November–October. Cloth is in metres up to 1984-85 and square metres from 1985-86; data before 1980-81 are calendar years. Coffee is by coffee season up to 1971-72 and calendar year after; it is reported as exactly 100 g from 2013-14 to 2021-22. Years before 2000-01 are at ten-year intervals, so the charts use a true time scale.
