The output of India’s core infrastructure industries contracted 5.2 percent YoY in September compared to a revised 0.1 percent growth in August 2019, reflecting weakness in industrial production and domestic demand. The index of core industries that includes eight industries was largely dragged down by coal and petroleum refinery products.
(15 October 2019), India’s infrastructure sector, which comprises core eight industries, contracted 0.5 percent Y-o-Y in August 2019 compared to growth of 4.7 percent in August 2018. The contraction was mainly due to the decline in the five industries: Coal (8.6 percent), crude oil (5.4 percent), natural gas (3.9 percent), cement (4.9 percent), and electricity (2.9 percent). However, refinery products, fertiliser and steel production grew 2.6 percent, 2.9 percent and 5 percent respectively. This was the first contraction since April 2015, reflecting weakness in the economy. However, government of India and RBI have taken some measures such as cut in corporate tax rate and policy rate to spur investments and revive the economy. These measures will help to revive these core sectors in the coming months.
The indicator of the Internet development level is the number of Internet users per 100 people in the country and is one of the basic indicators for assessing the information and communication technologies development level. More than half the world's population are internet users now. Most Internet users live in developed countries, where 80 percent of the population is connected to the network. At the same time, the use of the Internet is gradually growing in developing countries. Despite the fact that Africa and Asia still have the lowest rates of network connections, these regions seem to be the fastest growing by number of internet users. The lowest growth rates are recorded in Europe and the Americas regions. Most of the new users appeared on the network due to the decrease of smartphones and tariff plans for mobile communications cost, which became available to a wider segment of the population. The dominance of mobile access to basic telecommunication services is becoming more and more obvious. Access to high-speed mobile and fixed broadband networks is also expanding.
In 2000, the United Nations established eight Millennium Development Goals. For each goal specific targets were set, each of which is measured by one or more indicators. Select the indicator of interest from the list at the top of the page and the country or region in the table. Or observe achievements of the world as a whole on charts below.
Global Entrepreneurship Index provides information about global entrepreneurship subIndex ranks and scoring of all countries.It also provides information about certain indicators like attitudes,abilities and aspirations with their ranks and scores. Source: Global Entrepreneurship Index, 2016