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Date : Aug 29, 2019
Inflation, Money and Credit
(Per cent)
Inflation
Consumer Price Index (All India)# Rural Urban Combined
2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
General Index (All Groups) 5.0 3.6 3.0 4.0 3.6 3.9 4.5 3.6 3.4
Food and beverages 4.7 2.4 0.7 3.9 1.8 0.7 4.4 2.2 0.7
Housing _ _ _ 5.2 6.5 6.7 5.2 6.5 6.7
Fuel and light 4.6 6.5 6.0 1.0 5.6 5.2 3.3 6.2 5.7
Miscellaneous 5.1 4.3 6.3 3.7 3.1 5.4 4.5 3.8 5.8
Excluding Food and Fuel 5.5 4.7 5.7 4.3 4.6 5.9 4.8 4.6 5.8
Other Price Indices 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
1. Wholesale Price Index (2011-12=100)*                  
All Commodities 9.6 8.9 7.4 5.2 1.3 -3.7 1.7 2.9 4.3
Primary Articles 17.7 9.8 9.8 9.8 2.2 -0.4 3.4 1.4 2.7
of which : Food Articles 15.6 7.3 9.9 12.3 5.6 2.6 4.0 2.1 0.3
Fuel and Power 12.3 14.0 10.3 7.1 -6.1 -19.7 -0.3 8.2 11.5
Manufactured Products 5.7 7.3 5.4 3.0 2.6 -1.8 1.3 2.7 3.7
Non-Food Manufactured Products 6.1 7.3 4.9 2.7 2.7 -1.8 -0.1 3.0 4.2
2. CPI- Industrial Workers (IW) (2001=100) 10.4 8.4 10.4 9.7 6.3 5.6 4.1 3.1 5.4
of which : CPI- IW Food 9.9 6.3 11.9 12.3 6.5 6.1 4.4 1.5 0.6
3. CPI- Agricultural Labourers (1986-87=100) 10.0 8.2 10.0 11.6 6.6 4.4 4.2 2.2 2.1
4. CPI- Rural Labourers (1986-87=100) 10.0 8.3 10.2 11.5 6.9 4.6 4.2 2.3 2.2
Money and Credit
  2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17^ 2017-18 2018-19
Reserve Money (RM) 19.1 3.6 6.2 14.4 11.3 13.1 -12.9 27.3 14.5
Currency in Circulation 18.8 12.4 11.6 9.2 11.3 14.9 -19.7 37.0 16.8
Bankers’ Deposits with RBI 20.2 -15.9 -10.0 34.0 8.3 7.8 8.4 3.9 6.4
Currency-GDP Ratio$ 12.4 12.2 12.0 11.6 11.6 12.1 8.7 10.7 11.2
Narrow Money (M1) 10.0 6.0 9.2 8.5 11.3 13.5 -3.9 21.8 13.6
Broad Money (M3) 16.1 13.5 13.6 13.4 10.9 10.1 6.9 9.2 10.5
Currency-Deposit Ratio 16.3 16.1 15.7 15.1 15.2 16.0 11.0 14.4 15.4
Money Multiplier (Ratio)## 4.7 5.2 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.3 6.7 5.8 5.6
GDP-M3 Ratio$## 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2
Scheduled Commercial Banks                  
Aggregate Deposits 15.9 13.5 14.2 14.1 10.7 9.3 11.3 6.2 10.0
Bank Credit 21.5 17.0 14.1 13.9 9.0 10.9 4.5 10.0 13.3
Non-food Credit 21.3 16.8 14.0 14.2 9.3 10.9 5.2 10.2 13.3
Credit-Deposit Ratio 75.7 78.0 77.9 77.8 76.6 77.7 72.9 75.5 77.7
Credit-GDP Ratio$ 51.6 52.8 52.9 53.4 52.4 52.6 51.0 50.5 51.4
# : Base for Consumer Price Index (All India) is 2012=100.
_ : CPI Rural for Housing is not compiled.
* : Base for WPI is 2004-05=100 for the period 2010-11 to 2012-13 and 2011-12=100 for the period 2013-14 to 2018-19.
^ : March 31, 2017 over April 1, 2016 barring RM and its components.
$ : GDP data are based on 2011-12 base;     ##: Ratio.
Note: Data refer to y-o-y change in per cent unless specified otherwise.
Source: RBI, NSO, Labour Bureau and Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

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