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Kumar: India has roughly 80 million demat accounts

Ravi Kumar · BHARAT’s Decade, Stock Market & IPL Sponsorship - Upstox Co-founder & CEO Ravi Kumar on Neon Show · Sep 15, 2023 · at 3:47

Ravi Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Upstox, discusses the size of India's retail brokerage market on The Neon Show.

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“I think there's a shot of eighty million if I'm not mistaken.”

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The claim, plainly

The total number of demat accounts in India is approximately 80 million as of September 2023.

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Assessment

As of August and September 2023, the total number of registered demat accounts across India was between 126.6 million and 129.6 million (CDSL and NSDL combined), significantly exceeding the estimated 80 million figure. The 80 million threshold had been crossed by CDSL alone in February 2023, and combined nationwide demat accounts had already surpassed 110 million by January 2023. Because the actual total demat account count was roughly 60% higher than stated, the estimate falls well outside the range of a close approximation.

SEBI and depository data reported total demat accounts in India at 126.6 million to 127.0 million as of August 31, 2023.
CDSL official regulatory filings for Q2 FY2023-24 reported total nationwide demat accounts of 129.6 million as of September 30, 2023 (96.2 million at CDSL and ~33.4 million at NSDL).
CDSL alone had already reached 80 million active demat accounts on February 9, 2023, while total combined demat accounts crossed 110 million in January 2023.

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[1] business-standard.com [2] business-standard.com [3] nseindia.com [4] business-standard.com [5] nseindia.com [6] blinkx.in [7] mandavkar.uk

"demat accounts" "80 million" OR "8 crore" India demat accounts India August 2023 125 million 120 million total demat accounts in India September 2023 CDSL NSDL SEBI "8 crore demat accounts" CDSL NSDL SEBI

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