Name: India Business Expectations Index (BEI)
Creator: TRADING ECONOMICS
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: India,Business Confidence,data,chart,actual,historical,values,calendar,forecast,graph,2025,2026,2027

Business Confidence in India increased to 126.30 points in the fourth quarter of 2025 from 126.20 points in the third quarter of 2025. Business Confidence in India averaged 119.20 points from 2000 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 139.30 points in the fourth quarter of 2021 and a record low of 96.40 points in the second quarter of 2009. source: Reserve Bank of India

Business Confidence in India is expected to be 119.00 points by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the India Business Expectations Index (BEI) is projected to trend around 128.00 points in 2027 and 134.00 points in 2028, according to our econometric models.

Related	Last	Previous	Unit	Reference
Business Confidence	126.30	126.20	points	Dec 2025
Capacity Utilization	75.60	74.30	percent	Mar 2026
Car Production	2978173.00	2864612.00	Units	Mar 2026
Car Sales	442460.00	417705.00	Units	Mar 2026
Changes in Inventories	836.46	808.97	INR Billion	Sep 2025
Composite Leading Indicator	102.06	101.91	points	Mar 2026
Corruption Index	39.00	38.00	Points	Dec 2025
Corruption Rank	91.00	96.00		Dec 2025
Deposit Growth YoY	13.50	10.80	percent	Mar 2026
Electricity Production	134739.80	119706.27	Gigawatt-hour	Mar 2026
Industrial Production YoY	4.10	5.20	percent	Mar 2026
Industrial Production Mom	-6.40	-0.50	percent	Feb 2026
Manufacturing Production YoY	4.30	6.00	percent	Mar 2026
Mining Production	3.10	4.30	percent	Feb 2026
Steel Production	15300.00	13600.00	Thousand Tonnes	Mar 2026
Passenger Vehicle Sales	376268.00	418000.00	Units	Mar 2026

India Business Expectations Index (BEI)

In India, the Business Expectations Index (BEI) is calculated as a weighted (share of GVA of different industry group) net response of nine business indicators. The nine indicators considered are: (1) overall business situation; (2) production; (3) order books; (4) inventory of raw material; (5) inventory of finished goods; (6) profit margins; (7) employment; (8) exports; and (9) capacity utilisation. BEI gives a snapshot of the business outlook in every quarter and takes values between 0 and 200, with 100 being the threshold separating expansion from contraction. The number of total responses varies from quarter to quarter and averaged 1,200 over the last two years.