Number of MSME Units Across Indian States, 1972 to 2015

India had 6.3 crore MSME units in 2015, up from just 1.4 lakh in 1972, a 452-fold rise across four decades. The count jumped most sharply between 2001 and 2006, nearly tripling from 1.05 crore to 3.6 crore as the government widened the definition of MSMEs and the census methodology…