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How much fabric Indian consumers buy in a year?

• By  Textile Excellence
• June 05, 2014

India’s per capita consumption of textiles in 2012 increased 5 per cent to 25.93 meters as against 24.70 meters in 2011. In money terms, consumers brought textiles worth INR 2,862.87 in 2012 as against INR 2,473.64 in previous year. While overall per capita textile consumption had gone up by 5 per cent over the previous year in volume terms, the same has gone up by 16 per cent in monetary terms, according to a survey completed by Textiles Committee.

The survey done as 'Markets for Textile and Clothing: National Household Survey 2013' is the only such study conducted in the country by the Textile Committee an organization under the Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India .

The study covered 13,280 households spread across 105 urban and 252 rural centres across the country. The survey considered country’s population at 1.22 billion residing in 248.7 million households which accounted for estimated consumption of 31,636 million meters of fabrics in 2012.

India’s rural areas accounted for 62.50 per cent of total consumption of textiles and the urban areas accounted for remaining 37.50 per cent. But, per capita consumption of textiles in rural areas stood at 23.54 meters against the urban area's 31.20 meters.

Interestingly, the survey found that the per capita consumption of textiles by men grew more than women in this period. Per capita consumption by men increased by 48 per cent and that of women rose at 43 per cent according to the survey. In money terms, per capita purchase of textiles between 2000 and 2012 registered a growth of 79 per cent.

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