$100 billion 100,000 $2 billion $30 Billion 12,000 $28 million 300 724,000 10 U.S.–India FAST FACTS U.S.-India Bilateral trade in goods and services has increased almost five-fold since 2000, from under $19 billion in 2000 to nearly $93 billion in 2012, and is quickly approaching the $100 billion mark. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) contributed $28 million in FY2012 for technical support to India’s National AIDS Control Program. Through HIV responses by the Government of India, PEPFAR, and partners such as the Global fund, India’s infection rates dropped 50% between 2001 and 2009. The Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF), along with its U.S. counterpart the India Science and Technology Partnership (INSTP), has facilitated more than 12,000 interactions between scientists in the States and India. IUSSTF and INSTP have supported over 70 bilateral workshops, four advanced schools, and 10 virtual research centers. Indian and American private sector partners are supporting internships and study abroad opportunities to address our goals in education partnerships and skills training opportunities through the Passport to India initiative. Passport to India facilitates internship and study abroad opportunities for approximately one hundred American students in 2013. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) between India and the United States reached nearly $30 billion in 2011. FDI into India from the U.S. reached $25 billion total in 2011. In recent years, India has been among the fastest-growing sources of inward investment into the U.S., totaling nearly $5 billion of FDI from India in 2011. The Clean Energy Finance Center, a partnership between The Department of Energy, the State Department, OPIC, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, USAID, the Department of Commerce, and USTDA has provided over $2 billion in renewable energy financing to India. OPIC has committed over $500 million, and mobilized another $450 million in private sector capital in India’s clean energy sector. In the last two years Ex-Im has provided $340 million in loans toward the development of nine solar energy projects in Gujarat and Rajasthan. The Fulbright-Nehru program, a partnership between our two governments, has nearly tripled in the last four years, with more than 330 students and scholars from the United States and India participating annually making it the largest Fulbright faculty exchange in the world. U.S. Embassy and consulates in India processed more than 724,000 nonimmigrant visas last fiscal year, making it our fourth largest visa operation in the world. Over 100,000 Indians are currently studying in the United States, representing the second- largest group of foreign students.
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$100 billion
100,000
$2 billion
$30 Billion
12,000
$28 million
300
724,000
10
U.S.–IndiaFAST FACTS
U.S.-India Bilateral trade in goods and services has increased almost five-fold since 2000, from under $19 billion in 2000 to nearly $93 billion in 2012, and is quickly approaching the $100 billion mark.
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) contributed $28 million in FY2012 for technical support to India’s National AIDS Control Program. Through HIV responses by the Government of India, PEPFAR, and partners such as the Global fund, India’s infection rates dropped 50% between 2001 and 2009.
The Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF), along with its U.S. counterpart the India Science and Technology Partnership (INSTP), has facilitated more than 12,000 interactions between scientists in the States and India. IUSSTF and INSTP have supported over 70 bilateral workshops, four advanced schools, and 10 virtual research centers.
Indian and American private sector partners are supporting internships and study abroad opportunities to address our goals in education partnerships and skills training opportunities through the Passport to India initiative. Passport to India facilitates internship and study abroad opportunities for approximately one hundred American students in 2013.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) between India and the United States reached nearly $30 billion in 2011. FDI into India from the U.S. reached $25 billion total in 2011. In recent years, India has been among the fastest-growing sources of inward investment into the U.S., totaling nearly $5 billion of FDI from India in 2011.
The Clean Energy Finance Center, a partnership between The Department of Energy, the State Department, OPIC, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, USAID, the Department of Commerce, and USTDA has provided over $2 billion in renewable energy financing to India. OPIC has committed over $500 million, and mobilized another $450 million in private sector capital in India’s clean energy sector. In the last two years Ex-Im has provided $340 million in loans toward the development of nine solar energy projects in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
The Fulbright-Nehru program, a partnership between our two governments, has nearly tripled in the last four years, with more than 330 students and scholars from the United States and India participating annually making it the largest Fulbright faculty exchange in the world.
U.S. Embassy and consulates in India processed more than 724,000 nonimmigrant visas last fiscal year, making it our fourth largest visa operation in the world.
Over 100,000 Indians are currently studying in the United States, representing the second-largest group of foreign students.
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