183Table 9.7 India’s energy-related exports to Saudi Arabia (in US$ million)
Year Petroleum-
related exports
to Saudi
ArabiaTotal
petroleum-
related
exportsSaudi share in
total
petroleum-
related exports
(%)Exports to
Saudi
ArabiaShare of
petroleum-
related exports
to Saudi
Arabia (%)1996–97 0.94 516.43 0.18 577.18 0.16
1997–98 0.44 394.51 0.11 689.89 0.06
1998–99 0.34 141.07 0.24 774.29 0.04
1999–2000 0.08 90.86 0.09 742.50 0.01
2000–01 0.13 1930.98 0.01 822.94 0.02
2001–02 0.09 2182.93 0.00 826.43 0.01
2002–03 24.35 2707.21 0.89 940.74 2.59
2003–04 41.40 3734.28 1.11 1123.31 3.69
2004–05 1.36 7140.36 0.02 1412.06 0.09
2005–06 24.81 11,866.56 0.21 1809.77 1.37
2006–07 69.93 18,859.44 0.37 2590.77 2.67
2007–08 648.63 29,085.43 2.23 3711.16 17.48
2008–09 1390.53 28,437.09 4.89 5110.38 27.20
2009–10 965.20 29,036.24 3.32 3907.00 24.70
2010–11 700.73 42,735.89 1.64 4684.40 14.96
2011–12 1573.07 57,391.88 2.74 5683.29 27.68
2012–13 5136.70 62,105.45 8.27 9785.78 52.50
2013–14 6883.13 64,685.27 10.64 12,218.95 56.33
2014–15 5570.40 57,619.99 9.67 11,161.43 49.90
2015–16 1455.95 31,231.49 4.66 6394.23 22.77
2016–17 530.83 32,277.00 1.64 5134.63 10.34Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India
expatriateS
For centuries India has been sending migrants to different parts of the
world. Many communities from Arabia, Persia and Central Asia have come
and settled in India during the ancient and medieval periods. Traders from
the Arabian Peninsula used to travel to Southern and Western coastal
regions for maritime trade and some made India home. A robust Hadhrami
community from Yemen has settled in parts of the Malabar coasts and
Hyderabad. Some of them from Bahrain, Oman, Trucial States had lived
in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995) during the British period and had
established successful businesses. After India’s independence, many con-
tinued to live and work in the city but gradually started to shift bases in the
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