South Asia
India
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is India's #4 import source (world lens). India is the EU's #22 goods supplier.
India on the world stage
Total imports
$697.7bn
2024 annual
Total exports
$434.4bn
213 partners
#1 import source
China
18.2%
#1 export dest.
USA
18.3%
2024 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
India and the EU
EU imports from
€69.6bn
2.7% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€48.9bn
1.8% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #22 supplier
EU trade balance
import-tilted
coverage 0.70
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
89
EUR/MWh
Consumer
72
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
708
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
22%
of generation
Wholesale 35 EUR/MWh · regulated market
Power market
● Take-or-pay / single-buyer lock-inMarket model
State single-buyer + open access
Direct PPA
Allowed
grid access: limited
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Independent
Central + State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (CERC, SERCs)
DISCOM financial distress, cross-subsidy and surcharge-blocked open access keep industrial power dear and lock in long-term coal PPAs, even as a 2025 reform push (open-access widening, market coupling from 2026) tries to…
Tracked infrastructure
85 gas plants
26.5 GW · 3 building
850 coal plants
242.6 GW · 46 building
584 wind farms
28.2 GW · 24 building
751 solar farms
63.0 GW · 114 building
20 nuclear plants
7.5 GW · 7 building
133 hydro plants
43.4 GW · 27 building
46 steel plants
115,883 ktpa · 13 building
399 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
235
11 production-backed
Acid-drainage prone
13
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Iron, Aluminium, Other mine
Mine-water verifiability
Independent ambient only
CPCB national ambient water-quality programme + OCEMS…
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Monitored ports (19)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
28.4
→ 38.3 by 2050
Fertility
1.96
below replacement
Working-age
68.2%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
10.5
→ 21.7 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 1451M · peaks 2061
By 2050: +16% (1680M)