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Indian economy clocks 7.8% growth in Q4FY24
The growth propels country’s GDP to $3.5 trn, sets stage for achieving $5-trn target
New Delhi: India’s economy growth slowed to a four-quarter low of 7.8 per cent in the January-March period, but pushed the annual growth rate for FY24 to 8.2 per cent, mainly on account of good showing by manufacturing, official data showed on Friday.
The growth propelled the Indian economy to $3.5 trillion and set the stage for achieving the $5-trillion target in the next few years. In the previous 2022-23 fiscal year, the economy grew 7 per cent. China has registered an economic growth of 5.3 per cent in the first three months of 2024. The economic expansion was recorded at 7.8 per cent during the January-March 2024, while it was 8.6 per cent in October-December 2023 and 8.1 per cent in July-September 2023. The growth was 8.2 per cent in April-June 2023, as per data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO).
The GDP grew 6.2 per cent in the January-March quarter of 2022-23. The NSO, in its second advance estimate released in February, had projected the GDP growth for 2022-23 at 7.7 per cent. According to the NSO data, real GDP, or GDP at constant prices, is estimated to attain a level of Rs 173.82 lakh crore in 2023-24, against the first revised estimates (FRE) of GDP for 2022-23 of Rs 160.71 lakh crore. “The growth rate in real GDP during 2023-24 is estimated at 8.2 per cent as compared to 7.0 per cent in 2022-23,” it stated. Nominal GDP or GDP at current prices is estimated to attain a level of Rs 295.36 lakh crore in 2023-24, against Rs 269.50 lakh crore in 2022-23, showing a growth rate of 9.6 per cent, it added.
The real GDP in the March quarter of 2023-24 is estimated at Rs 47.24 lakh crore, against Rs 43.84 lakh crore a year earlier, showing a growth rate of 7.8 per cent. Nominal GDP, or GDP at current prices in the March quarter of 2023-24, is estimated at Rs 78.28 lakh crore, against Rs 71.23 lakh crore in the year-ago period, showing a growth rate of 9.9 per cent. The real GVA (gross value added) is estimated at Rs 158.74 lakh crore in 2023-24, against the FRE for 2022-23 of Rs 148.05 lakh crore, registering a growth rate of 7.2 per cent as compared to 6.7 pe cent in 2022-23.
