India Contributed 15% of
Global GDP Growth in the Past Decade


 
Growth has strongly outperformed the Asia-Pacific region and Emerging Markets in the past 25 years.

India's GDP Growth
Index: 2000 = 100
India Contributed 15% of - Global GDP Growth in the Past Decade


India Contributed 15% of - Global GDP Growth in the Past Decade

* GDP in Purchasing Power Parity terms with added estimates for the size of the informal economy and adjustments for out-of-date GDP base year data.



Real GDP in India has surged by 417% over the last twenty-five years contributing 15.6% of global output growth since 2015. This has pushed India’s share of the world output to over 9.2% making it the third-largest economy by size. In the last ten years, the country’s cumulative annual average real growth rate has been 6.6%.

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