India Overtakes UK To Become Fifth Biggest Economy

India has overtook UK to become the fifth biggest economy in the world. Furthermore, the IMF has predicted that this will become the new normal, with India set to overtake the UK up until 2027, becoming the fourth-largest economy in the world while the UK falls to sixth.

India's GDP was ranked eleventh in the world a mere ten years earlier.

The Indian economy has already surpassed that of the United Kingdom in size, ranking it as the fifth largest, as Statista's Martin Armstrong illustrates in the graphic below, with a 7 percent growth predicted for 2022.

According to the International Monetary Fund's most recent statistics, such is the case.

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India's growth coincides with a period of rapid inflation in the United Kingdom, resulting in a cost-of-living issue and the likelihood of a recession, which the Bank of England estimates would persist through 2024.

This circumstance, combined with a contentious political era and ...

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