Gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the country's total economic output, expanded at a 4.8% percent for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2013, much in line with the expectation and better than the 4.5% growth in the previous three months, which now stands revised to 4.7%
GDP at factor cost at constant (2004-05) prices in the year 2012-13 stood at Rs 55,05, 437 crore (as against Rs 55,03,476 crore estimated earlier on 7th February, 2013), showing a growth rate of 5.0% over the First Revised Estimates of GDP for the year 2011-12 of Rs 52, 43,582 crore, released on January 31, 2013.