Digital payments across country register 10.71% year-on-year rise as on March 2025

29 Jul 2025 Evaluate

Digital payments across country rose as the RBI’s Digital Payments Index (DPI) stood at 493.22 as of March 2025, as compared to 445.50 in March 2024, up 10.71 per cent. DPI was 465.33 in September 2024. Digital Payments Index measures the adoption of online transactions. The increase in RBI-DPI index was driven by significant growth in parameters viz. Payment Infrastructure - Supply-side factors and Payment Performance across the country over the period.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been publishing a composite Reserve Bank of India - Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) since January 1, 2021, with March 2018 as the base year to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country.

The RBI-DPI comprises five broad parameters that enable measurement of deepening and penetration of digital payments in the country over different time periods. These parameters are Payment Enablers (weight 25 per cent), Payment Infrastructure - Demand-side factors (10 per cent), Payment Infrastructure - Supply-side factors (15 per cent), Payment Performance (45 per cent) and Consumer Centricity (5 per cent). 


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