Bussard Ramjet
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China is still adding 2 trillion dollars every 3 years.
You have mixed growth with growth rate.
One country could grow at 6%, but still adding one third of 2 trillion dollars.
One country could grow at 10%, but the distance with the the country growing at 6% is getting bigger and bigger.
China, in 2016, didn't add anything to its GDP in dollar terms.
It's currency declined in 2016, by around 8%, wiping out the growth of the economy.
You have mixed growth with growth rate.
One country could grow at 6%, but still adding one third of 2 trillion dollars.
One country could grow at 10%, but the distance with the the country growing at 6% is getting bigger and bigger.
In 2000, China had a GDP of 1.2 trillion dollars, with a real 8.5% growth rate.
From this, in 2000, it added around 120 billion dollars to its economy.
In 2000, US had a GDP of 10.2 trillion dollars, with a real growth rate of 4%.
From this, in 2000, it added around 340 billion dollars to it's economy.
Does this then mean that US was growing faster and the gap increasing btw US and China in 2000?
Absolute gap is not the correct way to see trends. What is important is the ratio.
Obviously, a 10 times larger economy growing at even half the pace of an economy will add more absolute amount than the smaller economy. But this doesn't show the trend.
2016
India GDP 6.6%
China GDP 6.7%
These are IMF predictions.
World Bank predictions for India's economy are higher.
So are, RBI's predictions. You are just picking and choosing the data that you want to choose.
Then India is truly an exceptional case as no other fastest growing economies in history has ever had to deal with this issue before.
These are the proportion of people having access to sanitation, in the first column in 1990, and in the second column in 2015.
China in 1990 was growing at 10% and yet only 48% of its people had access to sanitation.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.ACSN
What is more worrying on part of India is that size of the GDP seems to be levelled at around 2 trillion USD.
How is that?
The apparent leveling off in the last 2-3 years is due to the decline of the value of ruppee. Earlier, one dollar was equal to 45 ruppee, now one dollar is equal to 68 ruppee.
In 2000, India's GDP was only 460 billion dollars.