New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- The unique registered investor base on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India crossed the 120 million (12 crore) mark on Tuesday. According to a press release, the total number of Investor Accounts (Unique Client Codes) registered with the NSE stands at 23.5 crore (as of September 23, 2025), having surpassed the 23 crore mark in July 2025.

The registered investor base reached the one crore mark 14 years after the NSE started operations. The next one crore addition took about seven years, the subsequent one crore addition took about three and a half years, and the next one took a little over a year. In other words, it took over 25 years for the registered investor base to hit the 4-crore mark in March 2021, with...