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The economy of India is a developing mixed economy with a notable public sector in strategic sectors. [5] It is the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP); on a per capita income basis, India ranked 141th by GDP (nominal) and 125th by GDP (PPP). [62]
India experienced deindustrialisation and cessation of various craft industries under British rule, [12] which along with fast economic and population growth in the Western world, resulted in India's share of the world economy declining from 24.4% in 1700 to 4.2% in 1950, [13] and its share of global industrial output declining from 25% in 1750 ...
At the turn of the century India's GDP was at around US$480 billion. As economic reforms picked up pace, India's GDP grew five-fold to reach US$2.2 trillion in 2015 (as per IMF estimates). India's GDP growth during January–March period of 2015 was at 7.5% compared to China's 7%, making it the fastest growing MAJOR economy.
First NDA govt ends, inflation is 3.8%. India's economy is $2.870 trillion (purchasing power parity) accounting for a 4.7% [21] share of world GDP, the fourth largest. [20] 2010 India's economy is $4.002 trillion (purchasing power parity) which accounts for a 4.5% [21] share of world income, the fourth largest in the world in terms of real GDP ...
[5] [6] Recent research has shown that India's growth rate had begun to attain higher growth since Indira Gandhi's time in 1980s due to economic reforms, with average growth rate of 5.8% in 1981 to 1991. [7] GDP growth rate has however slowed since 2016. [8]
The gross domestic product of India was estimated at 24.4% of the world's economy in 1500, 22.4% in 1600, 16% in 1820, and 12.1% in 1870. India's share of global GDP declined to less than 2% of global GDP by the time of its independence in 1947, and only rose gradually after the liberalization of its economy beginning in the 1990s.
Nearly 65% of India's population is rural, [113] and contributes about 50% of India's GDP. [114] India faces high unemployment, rising income inequality, and a drop in aggregate demand. [115] [116] According to the World Bank, 93% of India's population lived on less than $10 per day, and 99% lived on less than $20 per day in 2021. [117]
Historically, the United States was consistently year after year the world's largest economy since the early twentieth century. However, the report from 2014 showed that for the very first time China overtook the United States as the largest economy in the world taking into account purchasing power parity (PPP). Indeed, the margin of power ...