Made in India 🇮🇳

Made in India. Look closely and you'll find India in places you might not expect: in the vaccines given to children across Africa, in the trains of Sydney's driverless metro, in the iPhone in an American's pocket, and on a new railway in West Africa. This page collects the things India builds, grows and creates for the world, sector by sector, each one checked against a reliable source.

For Indians in Cyprus, it's also a reminder that "Made in India" travels further than we think, all the way to the shelves, cinemas and payment apps of our new home. Scroll to the end for the Cyprus connection.

Last updated: 22 October 2026. We'll keep adding to this page as new milestones happen.

The big picture

• A record year for exports (2025–26). In the financial year to March 2026, India sold US$863.1 billion of goods and services to the rest of the world, its highest total ever, with the two halves almost level: US$441.8 billion in goods and US$421.3 billion in services. Source: PIB – Ministry of Commerce & Industry, 28 July 2026

Medicines and vaccines

• The world's medicine cabinet. Roughly one in five generic medicines taken around the world is made in India, helping keep essential treatments affordable from Africa to the Americas. Source: Invest India – Pharmaceutical sector
• The world's biggest vaccine maker. Pune's Serum Institute of India makes more vaccine doses than any other company on Earth, and the company says around two in three children worldwide receive at least one of its vaccines. Source: Serum Institute of India – About us
• Vaccine Maitri (2021–22). During the pandemic, India sent Made-in-India COVID-19 vaccines to more than 90 countries as gifts, commercial supplies and through the global COVAX scheme. Source: Wikipedia – Vaccine Maitri
• Indian drug makers with a global reach. Sun Pharma, India's largest drug company, calls itself the world's fourth-biggest specialty generics maker, selling in over 100 countries from more than 40 factories on five continents. Source: Sun Pharma – Worldwide presence

Digital India

• UPI goes global (2021 onwards). UPI made its first move abroad in 2021, when Bhutan signed up; it now also works in places such as France, the UAE, Singapore, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Mauritius, and Greece joined in 2026. Source: NPCI – UPI; Eurobank – India office and UPI

Space

• Chandrayaan-3 lands near the Moon's south pole (23 August 2023). India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole, and only the fourth to land on the Moon at all. Source: Space.com – Chandrayaan-3 landing
• A launch partner for the world. ISRO has carried more than 430 foreign satellites into orbit, including a world-record 104 satellites on a single rocket in 2017. Source: WION – ISRO foreign satellite launches
• A home-grown private rocket reaches orbit (18 July 2026). Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 put its payloads into orbit on its first flight, opening the door to Indian private launch services for customers worldwide. Source: ISRO – First private orbital launch

Trains and metros

• Bihar-built locomotives for Guinea (from June 2025). The Marhowrah plant in Bihar is building 150 diesel locomotives to haul iron ore on Guinea's new Simandou railway; the first was flagged off in June 2025. Source: Wabtec – First export locomotive
• Sydney's driverless metro (2019). When Sydney opened Australia's first driverless metro line, its trains came from Alstom's plant at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh. Source: Business Today – Sydney Metro
• Coaches for Africa and Asia. Passengers in Mozambique and Sri Lanka ride in Indian-built coaches, and Indian railway parts are exported to countries including Germany, Italy and Spain. Source: India Sea Trade News – PM on rail exports

Ships

• Green cargo ships for Norway (April 2025). Udupi Cochin Shipyard in Karnataka handed over Wilson Eco 1, the first of six diesel-electric cargo ships built for Norway's Wilson, Europe's largest short-sea shipping company, under a Norwegian green-transport programme; Wilson has since ordered eight larger ships from the same yard. Source: India Shipping News – First green cargo vessel delivered to Norway

Phones and electronics

• The iPhone in America's pocket (2025). According to Apple's Tim Cook, the bulk of iPhones bought by American customers are now assembled in India. Source: Gulf News – iPhones made in India
• A smartphone export powerhouse (2025–26). India exported smartphones worth around ₹2.6 lakh crore in the 2025–26 financial year, making them one of the country's biggest export items. Source: Business Today – Smartphone exports
• The world's number two phone maker (2024). India now makes more mobile phones than any country except China, and only about 3% of the phones sold in India are imported, compared with 78% import dependence in 2014. Source: AIR – India now second-largest producer of mobile phones

Cars and bikes

• Maruti Suzuki's record year (2025–26). India's biggest car exporter shipped a record 447,774 vehicles to around 100 countries, with Latin American, African and Middle Eastern buyers leading the way. Source: Yahoo Finance – Maruti Suzuki FY26
• An Indian-built electric car for Europe (September 2025). Suzuki's e VITARA is built only at its Gujarat plant, and the first shipment left for 12 European countries, including Germany, France and the UK. Source: Maruti Suzuki – e VITARA exports
• Two-wheelers to the world (2025–26). Indian factories shipped a record 51.8 lakh motorcycles and scooters abroad in the 2025–26 financial year, about 23% more than the year before, according to the industry body SIAM. Sources: Autoguide India – SIAM full-year figures, NewsBytes – Record two-wheeler exports

Defence

• BrahMos finds overseas buyers (2022 and 2026). The Philippines became the first foreign buyer of the India-built BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in 2022, and Indonesia signed a deal in July 2026. Source: Naval News – Indonesia BrahMos deal
• Guided Pinaka rockets for Armenia (January 2026). Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off the first batch of guided Pinaka rockets for Armenia from Solar Defence and Aerospace's plant in Nagpur, a milestone for India's private defence makers. Sources: The Week – Pinaka rockets head to Armenia, Indian Defence News – First batch flagged off
• Record defence exports (2025–26). Indian-made defence equipment earned a record ₹38,424 crore in a single year, with buyers in over 80 nations. Source: PIB – Defence exports FY 2025-26

Aircraft and aerospace

• Apache helicopter bodies from Hyderabad. Every fuselage for Boeing's AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, flown by armies around the world, is now built by a Tata–Boeing joint venture in Hyderabad, which has rolled out more than 400 of them; the same partnership also makes tail fins for Boeing 737 airliners. Source: Wikipedia – Tata Advanced Systems
• Military transport planes, assembled by a private Indian firm (from October 2024). Tata and Airbus opened a final assembly line for C295 transport aircraft in Vadodara, the first time a private company has put together a military plane in India, with the first India-built aircraft due to roll out in 2026. Source: Tata – C295 final assembly line

Semiconductors

• India's first commercial chip packages head to the US (October 2025). From a new plant at Sanand, Gujarat, Kaynes Semicon sent its first batch of finished chip packages, each holding several chips in one module, to a customer in the United States, India's first such commercial export. Source: Outlook Business – Kaynes Semicon
• Memory chips for laptops. Also in Sanand, Micron is now assembling and testing memory chips at scale, with Dell among the first buyers for its laptops; India's first full chip factory, Tata's fab at Dholera, is still being built. Source: Inc42 – Micron Sanand

Clothes and textiles

• Dressing the world. From cotton yarn to ready-made garments and handloom, India ranks sixth among the world's textile and clothing exporters, with close to 4% of the global trade. Source: Indian Textile Magazine – Economic Survey

Toys

• From toy importer to toy exporter (2014–15 to 2022–23). Over eight years, India's toy exports more than tripled, from about US$96 million to US$326 million, while toy imports fell by more than half. Source: Deccan Herald – Toy exports surge, imports dip

Food and spices

• Feeding the world with rice. No country sells more rice abroad than India: roughly two in every five bags traded worldwide, from everyday grains to fragrant basmati, come from Indian fields. Source: The Tribune – India's rice exports
• The land of spices. India grows, eats and sells more spices than any other country, and its spice exports were worth about US$4.45 billion in 2024–25. Source: PIB – India's spice sector
• The world's biggest dairy. India makes more milk than any other country, close to a quarter of the global total and around 247 million tonnes in 2024–25, though most of it is drunk and eaten at home. Source: News On AIR – India's milk production
• Champion of millets (2023). India grows more millets, such as ragi, bajra and jowar, than any other nation, and it was India's proposal that led the UN to name 2023 the International Year of Millets. Source: Permanent Mission of India to the UN – International Year of Millets; APEDA – Indian millets

IT and software

• The world's back office, and much more. India's technology industry earns over US$220 billion a year from software and services exports, serving banks, hospitals and businesses on every continent. Source: YourStory – Nasscom FY25
• Offices on every continent. Indian IT firms have built truly global networks: Infosys alone works from more than 240 locations in over 54 countries. Source: Infosys – Global presence

Education abroad

• The IITs go global (2023–24). IIT Madras opened the first IIT campus outside India in Zanzibar, Tanzania, in 2023, and IIT Delhi followed with a campus in Abu Dhabi, taking India's best-known engineering brand to students overseas. Source: WION – IITs abroad

Indian brands abroad

These aren't made in India, but they're owned by Indian companies and carry Indian enterprise around the world.

• Two British car icons, Indian-owned (since 2008). Jaguar and Land Rover have belonged to Tata Motors since it acquired them from Ford; the cars themselves are still made in Britain and Slovakia. Source: Jaguar Land Rover – Tata completes acquisition
• Taj hotels, far from home. India's best-known hotel brand runs Taj properties abroad, from New York and London to the Maldives, and has recently opened in Frankfurt. Source: Business Standard – Indian hotel chains go global; Skift – IHCL expansion

Made in India, here in Cyprus

• UPI is on its way. An agreement signed during PM Modi's visit in June 2025 paves the way for UPI in Cyprus; Eurobank's customers in Greece can already send money home to India through UPI, and Cyprus is next on the bank's list. Source: Eurobank – India office and UPI
• An Indian tech hub in Nicosia (May 2025). Indian IT company LTIMindtree set up a Digital Innovation Hub at the CYENS research centre in Nicosia, building digital tools for Eurobank and other European clients. Source: Business Wire – LTIMindtree hub in Cyprus
• An Indian emergency trauma kit for the National Guard (June 2026). India handed Cyprus's National Guard a BHISHM Cube, a portable, made-in-India medical kit that can be set up quickly after earthquakes, floods or other emergencies and can support treatment for up to 300 patients. Source: High Commission of India, Nicosia – BHISHM Cube handover
• Medicines and more on Cypriot shelves. Cyprus imported around US$100 million of goods from India in 2024, including about US$6 million of medicines and other pharmaceutical products. Source: Trading Economics – Cyprus imports from India
• Indian films in Cypriot cinemas. Hindi films now get their own screenings on the island, from Hanuman Ansh to Dhurandhar, often to packed halls of the Indian community. Source: Indians in Cyprus – Hanuman Ansh review

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