India’s per capita income too low despite being world’s sixth-biggest economy: Rajiv Kumar

13 Jul 2018 Evaluate

NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar has said that emergence of India as the world’s sixth-biggest economy was very much projected but still there is a long way to go as the country’s per capita income is still 20 times lower than France. He also said that the country will have to develop capacity for intervening in the global stage in a meaningful manner as it is going to soon overtake the United Kingdom (UK) to become the world’s fifth biggest economy in 2018.

Kumar has stated that since now India is the sixth largest economy, so more and more will be expected from India on the global stage. He said “So we will have make that necessary preparation and create those capacity where we can intervene in global stage in a meaningful way with a clear pursuit of our national interest. There, they will have to create their own model of thinking, own model of strategic interventions.”

According to an analysis of data compiled by the World Bank, in 2017, India became the sixth largest economy with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $2.59 trillion, surpassing France and is likely to go past the United Kingdom, which is at the fifth position. As per the data, GDP of France stood at $2.58 trillion. The UK, which is facing Brexit blues, had a GDP of $2.62 trillion, which is about $25 billion more than that of India.

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