{"id":342864,"date":"2025-12-30T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:33:09","slug":"india-overtakes-japan-as-worlds-fourth-largest-economy-eyes-top-3-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342864\/","title":{"rendered":"India overtakes Japan as world\u2019s fourth largest economy, eyes top 3 in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/india?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India<\/a> has overtaken <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/japan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Japan<\/a> as the world\u2019s fourth-largest economy \u2013 and officials hope to pass <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/germany?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Germany<\/a> within three years, the government\u2019s end-of-year economic review calculates.Official confirmation however depends on data due in 2026 when final annual gross domestic product figures are released, with the International Monetary Fund (<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/international-monetary-fund-imf?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IMF<\/a>) suggesting India will cross over Japan next year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIndia is among the world\u2019s fastest-growing major economies and is well-positioned to sustain this momentum,\u201d read the government economic briefing note, which was released late on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWith GDP valued at US$4.18 trillion, India has surpassed Japan to become the world\u2019s fourth-largest economy, and is poised to displace Germany from the third rank in the next two-and-a-half to three years, with projected GDP of US$7.3 trillion by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman shops for artificial jewellery at a roadside stall in Bengaluru in December. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00110067-a659-4d8b-b9ae-2e092509947f_70c22074.jpg\" title=\"A woman shops for artificial jewellery at a roadside stall in Bengaluru in December. Photo: AFP\"\/>A woman shops for artificial jewellery at a roadside stall in Bengaluru in December. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">IMF projections for 2026 put India\u2019s economy at US$4.51 trillion, compared with Japan\u2019s US$4.46 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India has overtaken Japan as the world\u2019s fourth-largest economy \u2013 and officials hope to pass Germany within three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,891,62563,1294,2184,145,19871,308,386,3720,30572,12616,56,54,55,4540,2866,43025],"class_list":["post-342864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-december","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-germany","tag-imf","tag-india","tag-japan","tag-narendra-modi","tag-new-delhi","tag-russian-oil","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-dollar","tag-washington","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}