• Window: reference years 2000–2024 inclusive; annual periods have no timezone. Acquisition timestamps use UTC.
• Grain: India and comparison panels contain one row per country-year. Supporting observations contain one row per country-year-indicator.
• Geography: India; Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the comparison panel.
• Cadence: annual reference periods with publisher revisions. Hosted tables inherit the platform refresh schedule; downloaded files preserve the verified snapshot.
• Verified panels contain 25 India rows and 175 comparison rows. Supporting tables contain 3,600 observations and 18 indicator definitions.

• country_code, country_name, year — source ISO3 country identifier, name and reference year.
• population, urban_population_pct — people and urban share of population.
• gdp_current_usd, gdp_per_capita_constant_2015_usd — current US dollars and constant 2015 US dollars per person.
• gdp_growth_pct, inflation_cpi_pct — annual percentage change in real GDP and consumer prices.
• unemployment_pct, female_labor_force_pct — modeled unemployment share of total labour force and modeled female labour-force participation, ages 15+.
• secondary_enrollment_gross_pct, education_spending_gdp_pct — gross enrollment ratio and government education spending as a share of GDP.
• life_expectancy_years, infant_mortality_per_1000, under5_mortality_per_1000 — years at birth and deaths per 1,000 live births.
• government_health_spending_gdp_pct — domestic general government health spending as a share of GDP.
• basic_drinking_water_pct, basic_sanitation_pct, electricity_access_pct, internet_users_pct — percentage of population with access or use.
• Supporting observations retain indicator_code, indicator_name, value, unit, policy_sector, footnote, observation_status and source_url.
• The indicator dictionary preserves the publisher definitions, original providers, series codes, units and matching panel fields.

India has 443 of 450 values; all eight countries have 3,493 of 3,600 values. No missing values are filled. India lacks education spending for 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2023 and 2024, and government health spending for 2024. Gross enrollment ratios can exceed 100%. Publisher estimates, including modeled labour indicators, are retained. Reference years are not publication dates; historical figures may be revised.

• India development and public-spending trends.
• Descriptive comparisons with neighbouring countries.
• Selecting outcomes for a more specific policy study.
• These national series do not provide state, district, beneficiary or policy-treatment records, and cannot establish causal policy effects alone.

World Bank, World Development Indicators, source 2; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Attribute the World Bank and the originating organisations named in indicator metadata; retain source notes and indicate this selection and reshaping.