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India Contributed Almost 17% of
Global GDP Growth in the Past Decade


 
Last updated: 5 January 2025
 
Growth has strongly outperformed the Asia-Pacific region and Emerging Markets in the past 25 years.

India's GDP Growth
Index: 1999 = 100
India Contributed Almost 17% 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* GDP in Purchasing Power Parity terms with added estimates for the size of the informal economy and adjustments for out-of-date GDP base year data.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 394% over the last twenty-five years contributing over 16.7% of global output growth since 2014. This has pushed India’s share of the world output to over 10.4% making it the third-largest economy by size. In the last ten years, the country’s cumulative annual average real growth rate has been 8.5%.

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