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INDIAN INSTITUE OF MANAGEMENT

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI

INDIAN ECONOMY AND POLICY


ASSIGNMENT – 1 (A)
“GDP Comparison”

Sen Abraham Mathew


Section B, 1801114
GDP Comparison
(India, China, USA, UK, Spain)

GDP (million $)
Year 0 1000 1500 1820 1870 1913 1950 1998
India 33750 33750 60500 111417 134882 204241 222222 1702712
China 26820 26550 61800 228600 189740 241344 239903 3873352
USA 0 0 800 12548 98374 517383 1455916 7394598
Spain 1867 1800 4495 12299 19556 41653 61429 568115
UK 0 0 2815 36232 100179 224618 347850 1108568
World 102536 116790 247116 694442 1101369 2704782 5336101 33725635

India had the Highest GDP followed by China, USA and UK were non-existent in the zeroth Century.
This speaks volumes about the rich heritage, culture, resources and trade India and China had 2000
years ago. But at the inception of the 16th century Britain started to expand its colonies and US was
discovered and people started to settle there. From then Britain had the highest GDP till the end of
colonisation or one can say till the end of 19th century.

Percentage Share of GDP


Year 0 1000 1500 1820 1870 1913 1950 1998
India 32.9% 28.9% 24.5% 16.0% 12.2% 7.6% 4.2% 5.0%
China 26.2% 22.7% 25.0% 32.9% 17.2% 8.9% 4.5% 11.5%
USA 0.0% 0.0% 28.4% 1.8% 8.9% 19.1% 27.3% 21.9%
Spain 1.8% 1.5% 1.8% 1.8% 1.8% 1.5% 1.2% 1.7%
UK 0.0% 0.0% 1.1% 5.2% 9.1% 8.3% 6.5% 3.3%

The 20th century belonged to USA and following current trends the Asian Giants China and India are
will soon takeover USA by the mid of the 21st century.

The pictorial representation of the trends is as follows:

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