as of the end december 2022 stood at us 56272 billion accounting for 93 months of importsagriculture sector remains buoyantthe survey said that indias agriculture sector has been witnessing robust growth with an average annual growth rate of 46 percent over the last six years it attributed the sectors growth and buoyancy to the measures taken by the government to augment crop and livestock productivity ensure certainty of returns to the farmers through price support minimum support price promote crop diversification and focused interventions to enhance credit availability facilitate mechanisation and boost horticulture and organic farming the survey observed that these interventions are in line with the recommendations of the committee on doubling of farmers incomecryptos not financial assetscryptocurrencies have no intrinsic cashflows to them and the latest collapse of the crypto exchange ftx exposes the vulnerabilities in such investments the economic survey saidthe recent collapse of the crypto exchange ftx and the ensuing selloff in the crypto markets have placed a spotlight on the vulnerabilities in the crypto ecosystem the survey saidit added crypto assets are selfreferential instruments and do not strictly pass the test of being a financial asset because it has no intrinsic cashflowsthe survey also cited how us regulators have disqualified bitcoin ether and various other crypto assets as securitiesrise in health expenditurethe governments share in the total health expenditure has increased from 286 in financial year 2014 to 406 in 2019 with a significant decline in outofpocket expenditure according to the economic survey 202223the survey stated the government has also strengthened health infrastructure and prepared itself to address present and future needsthe share of government health expenditure in total health expenditure has increased from 286 per cent in the financial year 2014 to 406 per cent in 2019 with a concomitant decline in outofpocket expenditure as a percentage of total health expenditure from 642 per cent in 2014 to 482 per cent in 2019 the survey statedthe national health account nha for the financial year fy 2019 the latest available account highlights the rising importance of public healthcare and social security in ensuring universal health coverage it saidoutlays of social sectorspeaking about the components of the social sector cea nageswaran said not only the full document of the economic survey but the highlights have captured the element with outcome as well ranging from electricity healthcare food security affordable housing drinking water and sanitation all the way to cooking fuels all development and skill developmentthe cea also said general government spending with both the union and the state governments put together education has gone up from rs 53 lakh crore to rs 76 lakh crore and healthcare almost more than double in the last three yearsother than health and education the cea said we our spending on social sector have gone up from rs 486 lakh crore to rs 83 lakh crore approximately primary school dropout rate has come down from around 47 to 15 while pupil to teacher ratio has improved from 34