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  "id": "world/software-exports",
  "name": "Software exports",
  "hub": "World",
  "topic": "Services and software exports",
  "moduleIds": [
    "software-exports"
  ],
  "url": "https://data.indiadispatch.com/world/software-exports",
  "period": "2025-26",
  "periodKey": "2025-26",
  "latest": {
    "formattedValue": "₹19.56 trillion · $221 billion",
    "change": "+12.96% since FY 2024-25",
    "supportingFigures": "The RBI survey reported ₹19.56 trillion of software-services exports in 2025-26. The series covers computer services and information-technology-enabled services.",
    "inr": 19559470000000,
    "usd": 221400000000
  },
  "source": {
    "name": "Reserve Bank of India",
    "url": "https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=63625"
  },
  "numericValue": 19559470000000,
  "unit": "INR",
  "measure": "exports_inr_crore",
  "readingLabel": "Software-services exports, source-reported currency values",
  "readingValue": "₹19.56 trillion · $221 billion",
  "comparison": {
    "status": "compared",
    "method": "percent-change",
    "value": 12.964467784906585,
    "unit": "percent",
    "measure": "exports_inr_crore",
    "observationPeriod": "2025-26",
    "comparatorPeriod": "2024-25",
    "text": "+12.96% since FY 2024-25"
  },
  "currencyValuation": {
    "basis": "source-reported"
  },
  "cadence": "Annual",
  "version": "e1975bffa43553f1d55a6f2470bea7c4ac83e3e9fc176d5eba28f112c32ed42f",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-14T19:21:19.450Z",
  "coverage": "2016-04-01/2026-03-31",
  "notes": [
    "These are annual survey estimates of exports by Indian companies. Sales delivered through overseas commercial presence are excluded.",
    "Rupee and dollar amounts are both reported by the source. Historical rupee values have not been converted using today’s exchange rate.",
    "Financial years run from April to March. Export revenue is not company profit or the entire domestic technology industry’s revenue."
  ],
  "license": {
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "scope": "India Dispatch's original compiled tables and editorial text"
  },
  "sourceRights": "Underlying source publishers retain their own rights. This license does not grant rights to publisher documents, branding or other third-party material.",
  "attribution": "India by the numbers, Software exports, 2025-26, https://data.indiadispatch.com/world/software-exports. Source: Reserve Bank of India.",
  "valueRepresentation": "Table cells are the publication's formatted observations, with units retained. Missing observations are not zero. Numeric latest amounts, where present, are separately labelled INR and USD.",
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    {
      "title": "Reported software exports",
      "columns": [
        "Financial year",
        "Reported rupees",
        "Reported US dollars"
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          "id": "2016-17",
          "cells": [
            "2016-17",
            "₹6.51 trillion",
            "$97.1 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2017-18",
          "cells": [
            "2017-18",
            "₹7.05 trillion",
            "$108 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2018-19",
          "cells": [
            "2018-19",
            "₹8.24 trillion",
            "$118 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2019-20",
          "cells": [
            "2019-20",
            "₹9.12 trillion",
            "$129 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2020-21",
          "cells": [
            "2020-21",
            "₹9.92 trillion",
            "$134 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2021-22",
          "cells": [
            "2021-22",
            "₹11.67 trillion",
            "$157 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2022-23",
          "cells": [
            "2022-23",
            "₹14.91 trillion",
            "$186 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2023-24",
          "cells": [
            "2023-24",
            "₹15.79 trillion",
            "$191 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2024-25",
          "cells": [
            "2024-25",
            "₹17.31 trillion",
            "$205 billion"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2025-26",
          "cells": [
            "2025-26",
            "₹19.56 trillion",
            "$221 billion"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
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