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September 2019

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

By Akshata Kapadia | Parth Desai
Chartered Accountants
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1. The average cost of 1GB of mobile data in 2019

 

Country

Average Cost

India

$0.2

Russia

$0.9

Malaysia

$1.1

Pakistan

$1.8

Nigeria

$2.2

Brazil

$3.5

Spain

$3.7

UK

$6.6

Germany

$6.9

China

$9.8

Canada

$12

US

$12.3

South Korea

$15.1

Switzerland

$20.2

 

Source: cable.co.uk

 

2. Four-fold surge in online payments in rural and semi-urban India

 

Particulars

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Transactions*

4.57

10.10

13.72

17.37

17.38

Value**

1,558.1

3,717.3

7,120.6

23,795.5

28,243.2

Electricity Bills

Transactions*

0.24

0.32

0.49

0.56

1.00

Value**

108.7

138.7

239.5

308.4

1,198.4

Insurance Premiums

Transactions*

0.02

0.04

0.08

0.11

0.17

Value**

2.1

9.1

23.9

48.7

77.3

 

*Crore; **Rs. In crores

 

Source: Common services
centres data

 

3. Market size of the music industry across India (in billion rupees)

 

Source: Statista 2019

 

 

4. Retail inflation eases marginally

 

Source: Economic Times

5.  Electricity Consumption
(in kWh per capita)

 

Source: The Spectator Index

 

6. GST Returns filing summary for financial year 2019-20

Source:
www.gstcouncil.gov.in

 

 

7. Only 15% of taxpayers have filed GST returns (as of 9th August,
2019)

Source: ET Online Aug 9,
2019; at 11.12 am IST

 

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