New Delhi: India's services exports increased by 7.2 per cent year on year to $39.305 billion in September 2026, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday, news agency ANI reported. The September receipts were also higher than August's $35.471 billion.

Source: ANI via Daily Prabhat

The growth rate, however, moderated from 13.7 per cent in August and 13.4 per cent in July to 7.2 per cent in September, ANI reported, citing the RBI's monthly data on India's international trade in services.

Source: ANI via Daily Prabhat

$39.305 billionServices exports (receipts), September 2026
7.2%Year-on-year growth, down from 13.7% in August
$20.097 billionServices imports (payments), September 2026
$19.208 billionServices trade surplus, September 2026

Services imports also increased during September, reaching $20.097 billion, up 12.6 per cent from the corresponding month last year, DevDiscourse reported from the same RBI release. India's services trade surplus stood at $19.208 billion in September, compared with $16.537 billion in August.

Source: DevDiscourse (ANI)

The RBI stated that the figures for July to September 2026 are provisional and that the year-on-year growth rates have been revised on the basis of balance of payments statistics, according to its press release on the monthly services trade data.

Source: RBI press release 2026-2027/1415

Services — led by software and other business services — remain one of the strongest supports for India's external accounts, and the monthly RBI release is the central bank's authoritative reading of that trade, following the Commerce Ministry's earlier estimates for the same month.