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Digital economy to sustain 65 mn jobs by 2025 : Report

The digital economy has the potential to sustain 60-65 million employment opportunities for women, differently-abled people, skilled and semi-skilled workers across digitally enabled businesses in urban, semi-urban, and rural areas.
Digital economy to sustain 65 mn jobs by 2025 : Report

The Indian government has set a target of making India a US$5 trillion economy by 2025, from US$2.7 trillion in 2018-19 at a growth rate of close to 7%. Digital technologies across sectors such as retail, financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and infrastructure will be fuelling this growth resulting in employment generation, increased local and regional entrepreneurship and facilitate equitable socio-economic growth. 

By 2025, digital technologies are expected to generate US$1 trillion in economic value. The digital economy has the potential to sustain 60-65 million employment opportunities for women, differently-abled people, skilled and semi-skilled workers across digitally enabled businesses in urban, semi-urban, and rural areas. This transformation is expected to create a thriving market for digital services, content, solutions, platforms, and applications. Market enablers such as availability of increased disposable income, cheaper smartphones, declining data tariffs, and increased digital literacy are helping achieve inclusive growth by making products and services more accessible – fuelling the digital economy.  

Prashant Singhal, Emerging Markets TMT Leader, EY, said, “India is at an inflection point – digital has changed the way people communicate, socialize, create, sell, shop and work. ‘What comes next’ will be determined by the continued focus on fostering innovation, developing unique service offerings and enabling the digital infrastructure in the country which will help us achieve or even exceed the US$1 trillion target. India is poised to be a game-changer in the world digital economy by empowering its citizens and revolutionizing businesses.” 

Over the last five years, India has achieved significant milestones in its digital journey across digital payments, digital infrastructure, sharing economy, start-up ecosystems and electronics manufacturing under the Digital India and Make in India initiatives. In the last four years, 268 mobile and mobile component manufacturing units have been set-up, generating 670,000 direct and indirect jobs under the electronic manufacturing initiative. Domestic electronics manufacturing could generate economic value of US$100 billion to US$130 billion by 2025.

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