According to the latest World Bank report, India’s economy has crossed the $2-trillion mark in 2014 and currently stands at $2.067 trillion. While it took 60 years to reach $1-trillion mark, in just 7 years it added one trillion to its economy, which has doubled in size since the financial crisis hit the country in 2008. India has been included into the list of world’s fastest growing economies this year, though it is still in the lower middle income category ($1,046-$4,125). It is expected that India will become ‘upper middle income’ country ($4,126-$12,735) in 2026 and will take 2039 to reach the level of High income category.
The numbers were arrived considering the Indian economy’s growth of 7.4% in the current fiscal compared with 6.9% last year based on a new way of calculating gross domestic product (GDP). The World Bank data further showed that India’s Gross National Income (GNI) per person rose to $1,610 (around Rs 1, 01,430 by present exchange rate.) during 2014 from the previous year $1,560. The annual growth rate of India over the last decade was 8.9%. Gross national income measures the total value added by all citizens of a country, whether in India or abroad.
Talking about other nations, the report said that China, with a per capita GNI of $7,380 and an average annual growth in this parameter of 15.6 per cent, will leave the ‘upper middle income’ category by 2018 to become a ‘high income’ country like the U.S., the U.K., Germany and Japan. Over the last one year itself, four nations crossed over to the lower-middle income category, according to the latest World Bank data.
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