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Composition of India's total production of foodgrains and commercial crops, in 2003–04, by weight. India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 18.6% of the GDP in 2005, employed 60% of the total workforce [13] and despite a steady decline of its share in the GDP, is still the largest economic sector and plays a ...
Nearly 65% of India's population is rural, [99] and contributes about 50% of India's GDP. [100] India faces high unemployment, rising income inequality, and a drop in aggregate demand. [101] [102] 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. [103]
This map shows the change in per capita GDP of India from 1820 CE to 2015 CE. All GDP numbers are inflation adjusted to 1990 International Geary-Khamis dollars. Data Source: Tables of Prof. Angus Maddison (2010). The per capita GDP over various years and population data can be downloaded in a spreadsheet from here.
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.
Maddison's estimates of global GDP, [6] China and India being the most powerful until the 18th century. Bengal Subah was valued 50% of Mughal India's GDP.. 1500–1600 Indian subcontinent, mostly under the Mughal Empire (after the conquest of the Delhi Sultanate and Bengal Sultanate) became economically 10 times more powerful than the contemporary Kingdom of France, [7] contained an estimated ...
Historical list of the world's ten largest economies by GDP (PPP) (billions USD) (World Bank figures) [1] [2] Year World Top 10 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 2015 113,612.52: 68,997.53 China 19,524.35 United States 17,947.0 India 8,003.40 Germany 3,848.27 Russia 3,579.83 Brazil 3,192.40 Indonesia 2,842.24 United Kingdom 2,691.81
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021.
GSDP is the sum of all value added by industries within each state or union territory and serves as a counterpart to the national gross domestic product (GDP). [1] As of 2011 [update] , the Government accounted for about 21% of the GDP followed by agriculture with 21% and corporate sector at 12%.