Delhi's per capita income crosses Rs 3 lakh, three times the national avg

Grew by 10.8% in 2016-17, marginally higher than the all India average growth of 10.2%

Advance estimates for 2016-17 show that Delhi’s per capita income (net state domestic product) has crossed Rs 3 lakh in 2016-17, which is almost three times the national average.

Delhi's per capita income growth, which had fallen below 10 per cent in 2014-15 and 2015-16 (in current prices), grew by 10.8 per cent in 2016-17, marginally higher than the all India average growth of 10.2 per cent. 

Interestingly, data from Niti Aayog shows that in 2013-14 (the last year for which comparable estimates are available), per capita income (NSDP) of Goa was higher than that of Delhi at Rs 224,138