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The Indian economy grew at about 1% per year from 1890 to 1910, ... By 1900 India had a full range of rail services with diverse ownership and management, operating ...
The empire's largest economy in 1870 was British India with a 12.15% share of world GDP, followed by the United Kingdom with a 9.03% share. The empire's largest economy in 1913 was the United Kingdom with an 8.22% share of world GDP, followed by British India with a 7.47% share. [20]
The gross domestic product of India was estimated at 24.4% of the world's economy in 1500, 22.4% in 1600, 16% in 1820, and 12.1% in 1870. India's share of global GDP declined to less than 2% of global GDP by the time of its independence in 1947, and only rose gradually after the liberalization of its economy beginning in the 1990s.
According to some evidence cited by the economic historians Immanuel Wallerstein, Irfan Habib, Percival Spear, and Ashok Desai, has theorised that per-capita agricultural output and standards of consumption in 17th-century Mughal India was on-par with 17th-century Europe and early 20th-century British India.
First estimation of India's national income by Dadabhai Naoroji; 1870 India's economy had a 9.2% share of world income under the British Empire. [18] 1900 Under the British Empire, India's share of manufacturing declined to 2% of global industrial output. [12] 1913 India's economy had a 5.4% share of world income under the British Empire. [18] 1930
However, by the end of British rule, India's economy represented a much smaller proportion of global GDP. In 1820, India's GDP was 16% of the global GDP. By 1870, it had fallen to 12%, and by 1947 to 4%. India's per-capita income remained mostly stagnant during the Raj, with most of its GDP growth coming from an expanding population. Per capita ...
This is an alphabetical list of countries by past and projected Gross Domestic Product per capita, based on the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) methodology, not on official exchange rates.
The following estimates are taken exclusively from the 2007 monograph Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030 AD by the British economist Angus Maddison. [2] (GDP (PPP) in millions of 1990 International Dollars) [3] [4] [5] Year 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 2030 (Forecast) China 22,983,000 United States 16,662,000 India 10,074,000 Japan