Ministry of External Affairs
Ministry of External Affairs.
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₹21,743 crore
spent in 2025–26, 0.44% of all union government spending. Revised estimate, not yet final.
Every year on record
| Year | Amount | Share of union spending | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | ₹21,743 crore | 0.44% | Revised estimate |
| 2024–25 | ₹25,512 crore | 0.55% | Actuals |
| 2023–24 | ₹28,915 crore | 0.65% | Actuals |
| 2022–23 | ₹16,661 crore | 0.40% | Actuals |
| 2021–22 | ₹14,146 crore | 0.37% | Actuals |
| 2020–21 | ₹14,329 crore | 0.41% | Actuals |
Its demands for grants
1 budget line sit under this ministry. The total above is their sum, because a group carries no figure of its own anywhere in this dataset.
The ministry structure here is the one the 2026-27 Budget publishes, applied to every year so a demand keeps one place across time. A machinery-of-government change that moved a demand between ministries in an earlier year is therefore not reflected.
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