Articles of Consumption: Year-wise Per Capita Availability of Important Articles of Consumption
The dataset contains historical data on per capita availability of important article of consumption, such as edible oil, vanaspati, sugar, cloth, tea, coffee, domestic electricity, etc.
Articles of Consumption: Year-wise Per Capita Availability of Important Articles of Consumption
The dataset contains historical data on per capita availability of important article of consumption, such as edible oil, vanaspati, sugar, cloth, tea, coffee, domestic electricity, etc.
Rows: 234
Columns: 5
Time period: 1960-61, 1970-71, 1980-81, 1990-91, 2000-01 to 2021-22
Last Updated: 30 January 2026
Data preview
fiscal_year
article_type
value
unit
note
2021-22
Electricity Domestic
248.28
value in kilowatt hour
2021-22
Vanaspati
0.5
value in kilogram
category: relates to calendar year.
2021-22
Cloth Man-made and Cotton
48.1
value in meters
category: the data of cloth; prior to 1980-81 is calender year wise; in meters upto 1984-85; in square meter from 1985-86 onwards.
2021-22
Tea
872
value in gram
2021-22
Cloth Cotton
25.8
value in meters
category: figures for blended/mixed fabrics were not separately available prior to 1969. these have been included under man-made fibre fabrics after 1969. category: the data of cloth; prior to 1980-81 is calender year wise; in meters upto 1984-85; in square meter from 1985-86 onwards.
2021-22
Sugar
19.9
value in kilogram
category: relates to actual releases for domestic consumption, sugar season/year commencing from november to october of following year as opposed to financial.
2021-22
Coffee
100
value in gram
category: figures up to 1971-72 relate to coffee season and are thereafter on calendar year basis.
2021-22
Edible oil
21
value in kilogram
category: includes groundnut oils, rapeseed and mustard oil, sesamum oil, nigerseed oil, soyabean oil and sunflower oil but excludes oil for manufacture of vanaspati.
2021-22
Cloth Man-made
22.3
value in meters
category: the data of cloth; prior to 1980-81 is calender year wise; in meters upto 1984-85; in square meter from 1985-86 onwards.
2020-21
Cloth Man-made
19.3
value in meters
category: the data of cloth; prior to 1980-81 is calender year wise; in meters upto 1984-85; in square meter from 1985-86 onwards.
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Metadata
Number of Rows234
Number of Columns5
Time Period1960-61, 1970-71, 1980-81, 1990-91, 2000-01 to 2021-22
Ministry of Finance. (2026). Articles of Consumption: Year-wise Per Capita Availability of Important Articles of Consumption [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/20090