New Delhi: NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam during a press briefing on NITI Council meeting, in New Delhi, Saturday, May 24, 2025.
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NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) BVR Subrahmanyam said that India has overtaken Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, citing data by the International Monetary Fund.
Addressing a press conference of the 10th NITI Aayog Governing Council Meeting on ‘Viksit Rajya for Viksit Bharat 2047’, BVR Subrahmanyam, CEO, NITI Aayog stated that India’s economy has reached the $4 trillion mark. “We are the fourth largest economy as I speak. We are a $4 trillion economy as I speak, and this is not my data. This is IMF data. India today is larger than Japan. It’s only the United States, China, and Germany which are larger, and if we stick to, you know, what is being planned, what is being thought through, it’s a matter of another 2, 2.5 to 3 years; we would become the third largest economy.”
According to the IMF’s April edition of the World Economic Outlook report, the nominal GDP for fiscal 2026 is expected to reach around $4,187.017 billion. This is marginally more than the likely GDP of Japan, which is estimated at $4,186.431 billion. India was the fifth largest economy in the world till 2024. India’s economy is expected to grow by 6.2 per cent in 2025 and 6.3 per cent in 2026, maintaining a solid lead over global and regional peers, the April 2025 edition of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook added.
India is projected to remain the fastest-growing large economy for 2025 and 2026, reaffirming its dominance in the global economic landscape. In contrast, the IMF projects global economic growth to be much lower, at 2.8 per cent in 2025 and 3.0 per cent in 2026, highlighting India’s exceptional outperformance.
NITI Aayog CEO further stated that India is at a turning point and at a take-off stage where it can grow very, very rapidly. Sharing more information on the matters discussed during the Governing Council Meeting, he said “We had sub-themes for manufacturing services, rural, non-farm, urban, informal, and the green economy, as well as the circular economy. These were the broad themes that were there.”
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Published on May 25, 2025