India to become fifth-largest economy in 2025: think tank

Why is it in news?
  • According to think tank, India will overtake the U.K. to become the fifth-largest in 2025 and race to the third spot by 2030.
  • The think tank Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) published its annual report recently.
Key Arguments of the think tank:
  • After overtaking the U.K. in 2019, the U.K. overtakes India again in this year’s forecasts and stays ahead till 2024 before India takes over again.
  • The Indian economy would expand by 9% in 2021 and by 7% in 2022.
  • Indian would overtake “Germany in 2027 and Japan in 2030.
  • China would overtake the U.S. to become the world’s biggest economy in 2028.





Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 27th Dec 2020