Historic GDP Estimates for South Asia explained

See also: Demographics of India and List of regions by past GDP (PPP).

GDP (PPP) estimates for the South Asian region

GDP (PPP) in 1990 international dollars^[1]

Year	GDP (PPP) (1990 dollars)	GDP per capita (1990 dollars)					Avg % GDP growth	% of world GDP (PPP)	Population	% of world population	Period
1	33,750,000,000	450					—	32.0	70,000,000	30.03	Classical era
1000	33,750,000,000	450					0.0	28.0	72,500,000	27.15	Early medieval era
1500	60,500,000,000	550					0.117	24.35	79,000,000	18.0	Late medieval era
Alternative estimates:			^[2]	^[3]	^[4]	^[5]
1600	74,250,000,000	550	782	682	758	735	0.205	22.39	100,000,000	17.98	Early modern era
1700	90,750,000,000	550	719	622	697	676	0.201	24.43	165,000,000	27.36
1820	111,417,000,000	533	580	520	562	545	0.171	16.04	209,000,000	20.06
1870	134,882,000,000	533	526	526	510	494	0.975	12.14	253,000,000	19.83	Colonial era
1913	204,242,000,000	673				624	0.965	7.47	303,700,000	16.64
1940	265,455,000,000	686				636	0.976	5.9	386,800,000	16.82

South Asia relative to the British economy

GDP at market prices^{[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

Year	Gross domestic product (000,000 rupees)	per GBP	GDP deflator (index 2011 = 100)	Per capita income (as % of UK)
1687	7,004	14.94	0.117
1688	7,019	14.94	0.117
1689	7,072	15.02	0.117
1690	7,087	15.02	0.117
1691	7,083	14.98	0.117
1692	7,070	14.92	0.117
1693	7,042	14.83	0.116
1694	7,076	14.87	0.116
1695	7,163	15.02	0.117
1696	7,877	15.00	0.129
1697	7,998	15.20	0.130
1698	7,947	15.07	0.129
1699	7,717	14.94	0.125
1700	7,666	14.81	0.124	35.17
1701	7,834	15.07	0.126	34.09
1702	8,101	15.52	0.130	35.28
1703	7,952	15.17	0.127	38.36
1704	8,011	15.22	0.128	31.78
1705	7,986	15.11	0.127	34.20
1706	8,104	15.27	0.128	41.67
1707	8,228	15.44	0.129	37.83
1708	8,245	15.41	0.129	34.55
1709	8,225	15.31	0.128	36.68
1710	8,210	15.22	0.128	39.26
1711	8,281	15.29	0.128	38.80
1712	8,325	15.31	0.128	39.73
1713	8,320	15.24	0.128	40.50
1714	8,293	15.13	0.127	36.55
1715	8,315	15.11	0.127	39.26
1716	8,336	15.09	0.127	37.93
1717	8,199	15.13	0.124	34.84
1718	8,336	15.11	0.126	33.83
1719	8,260	15.09	0.124	34.95
1720	8,362	15.04	0.125	32.02
1721	8,303	15.05	0.124	34.38
1722	8,381	15.17	0.124	34.69
1723	8,450	15.20	0.125	34.98
1724	8,412	15.11	0.124	35.39
1725	8,445	15.11	0.124	33.97
1726	8,499	15.15	0.124	34.55
1727	8,582	15.24	0.125	35.45
1728	8,601	15.11	0.125	32.45
1729	8,565	14.92	0.124	34.76
1730	8,514	14.81	0.122	35.81
1731	8,560	14.94	0.123	36.44
1732	8,678	15.09	0.124	35.53
1733	8,783	15.18	0.125	34.72
1734	8,916	15.39	0.126	34.95
1735	9,003	15.41	0.127	35.55
1736	8,859	15.18	0.125	33.41
1737	8,798	15.02	0.123	35.98
1738	8,765	14.91	0.122	35.98
1739	8,776	14.91	0.122	36.11
1740	8,826	14.94	0.122	34.16
1741	8,887	14.92	0.123	32.97
1742	8,898	14.85	0.123	32.75
1743	8,972	14.85	0.123	34.05
1744	9,037	14.87	0.124	35.10
1745	9,093	14.98	0.124	35.66
1746	9,131	15.13	0.124	33.54
1747	9,307	15.26	0.126	32.95
1748	9,205	15.11	0.124	32.59
1749	9,026	14.80	0.121	32.57
1750	8,926	14.55	0.120	32.57
1751	8,837	14.39	0.118	33.28
1752	8,957	14.50	0.119	31.21
1753	9,033	14.54	0.120	31.84
1754	8,985	14.48	0.119	33.10
1755	9,140	14.68	0.120	32.97
1756	9,334	14.94	0.122	32.27
1757	9,322	14.87	0.122	28.72
1758	9,451	14.85	0.123	28.98
1759	9,099	14.15	0.118	30.91
1760	9,059	14.14	0.117	29.84
1761	9,456	14.54	0.122	29.88
1762	9,895	15.27	0.127	30.06
1763	9,859	14.99	0.126	28.90
1764	9,456	14.70	0.121	28.08
1765	9,571	14.83	0.122	28.23
1766	9,696	14.80	0.123	28.06
1767	9,828	14.85	0.124	27.30
1768	9,782	14.80	0.123	27.94
1769	9,897	14.72	0.124	28.06
1770	9,839	14.62	0.123	28.79
1771	9,853	14.66	0.123	27.10
1772	9,790	14.52	0.122	27.17
1773	9,662	14.62	0.120	26.28
1774	9,670	14.62	0.120	26.55
1775	9,745	14.72	0.120	25.78
1776	9,663	14.55	0.119	25.71
1777	9,687	14.54	0.119	24.58
1778	9,811	14.68	0.120	24.97
1779	9,923	14.80	0.121	26.06
1780	9,900	14.72	0.120	25.18
1781	9,972	14.78	0.121	22.08
1782	9,759	14.42	0.118	22.38
1783	9,877	14.48	0.119	23.12
1784	10,058	14.70	0.120	24.19
1785	10,217	14.92	0.122	24.47
1786	10,251	14.96	0.122	22.94
1787	10,256	14.92	0.122	23.75
1788	10,101	14.65	0.119	24.87
1789	10,201	14.75	0.120	25.03
1790	10,434	15.04	0.123	22.95
1791	10,472	15.05	0.123	23.04
1792	10,588	15.17	0.124	21.18
1793	10,501	15.00	0.122	21.99
1794	10,793	15.37	0.125	22.72
1795	10,952	15.55	0.127	18.86
1796	11,055	15.65	0.128	18.19
1797	10,918	15.41	0.126	18.38
1798	11,131	15.59	0.128	17.73
1799	11,245	15.74	0.129	16.17
1800	11,289	15.68	0.129	14.34
1801	11,209	15.46	0.128	13.65
1802	11,115	15.26	0.127	15.97
1803	11,369	15.41	0.129	16.50
1804	11,422	15.41	0.130	15.80
1805	11,704	15.79	0.133	14.69
1806	11,730	15.52	0.132	14.91
1807	11,794	15.43	0.133	14.30
1808	12,429	16.08	0.140	15.00
1809	12,573	15.96	0.141	14.09
1810	12,559	15.77	0.141	13.10
1811	13,863	15.53	0.155	15.55
1812	15,273	16.11	0.170	16.39
1813	16,193	16.25	0.180	16.27
1814	13,556	15.04	0.151	15.66
1815	13,250	15.26	0.147	14.77
1816	11,592	15.28	0.128	14.76
1817	11,450	15.11	0.126	14.35
1818	11,927	15.35	0.131	14.39
1819	11,764	15.33	0.129	15.35
1820	11,684	15.62	0.128	14.98
1821		15.95	0.131
1822		15.80	0.129
1823		15.84	0.129
1824		15.82	0.129
1825		15.70	0.128
1826		15.76	0.129
1827		15.74	0.128
1828		15.78	0.129
1829		15.78	0.129
1830	9,100	15.82	0.129	12.39
1831		15.72	0.129
1832		15.73	0.129
1833		15.93	0.130
1834		15.73	0.129
1835		15.80	0.129
1836		15.72	0.129
1837		15.83	0.129
1838		15.85	0.130
1839		15.62	0.128
1840	7,560	15.62	0.128	9.44
1841		15.70	0.128
1842		15.87	0.130
1843		15.93	0.130
1844		15.85	0.130
1845		15.92	0.130
1846		15.90	0.130
1847		15.80	0.129
1848		15.85	0.130
1849		15.78	0.129
1850	5,910	15.70	0.128	7.76
1851		15.46	0.126
1852		15.59	0.127
1853		15.33	0.125
1854		15.33	0.125
1855		15.38	0.126
1856		15.38	0.126
1857		15.27	0.125
1858		15.38	0.126
1859		15.19	0.124
1860	4,100	15.29	0.125	4.08
1861		15.50	0.127
1862		15.35	0.125
1863		15.37	0.126
1864		15.37	0.126
1865		15.44	0.126
1866		15.43	0.126
1867		15.57	0.127
1868		15.59	0.127
1869		15.60	0.128
1870	3,332	15.57	0.127	2.51
1871	3,348	15.57	0.127	2.36
1872	3,376	15.63	0.128	2.27
1873	3,441	15.93	0.130	2.19
1874	3,507	16.16	0.132	2.23
1875	3,628	16.64	0.136	2.31
1876	3,887	17.75	0.145	2.37
1877	3,784	17.20	0.141	2.43
1878	3,960	17.92	0.146	2.51
1879	4,083	18.39	0.150	2.64
1880	4,025	18.05	0.148	2.49
1881	4,088	18.25	0.149	2.48
1882	4,095	18.20	0.149	2.43
1883	4,213	18.64	0.152	2.44
1884	4,056	18.61	0.152	2.43
1885	3,991	19.41	0.145	2.36
1886	4,193	20.78	0.157	2.31
1887	4,525	21.10	0.161	2.37
1888	4,773	22.00	0.168	2.33
1889	4,769	22.10	0.172	2.21
1890	5,190	19.75	0.179	2.64
1891	5,304	20.92	0.201	2.56
1892	5,630	23.72	0.197	2.47
1893	5,307	26.49	0.181	2.10
1894	4,869		0.163
1895	5,371		0.183
1896	5,333		0.196
1897	5,561		0.173
1898	6,227		0.192
1899	6,715		0.224
1900	7,080		0.228
1901	7,666		0.242
1902	8,283		0.242
1903	8,926		0.258
1904	8,840		0.255
1905	9,910		0.291
1906	10,684		0.306
1907	11,653		0.355
1908	10,373		0.312
1909	11,094		0.294
1910	11,506		0.305
1911	11,822		0.315
1912	12,869		0.342
1913	13,473		0.365
1914	12,557		0.321
1915	13,313		0.348
1916	17,087		0.431
1917	20,552	24.61	0.526	3.35
1918	26,105	21.00	0.761	4.17
1919	26,966	18.44	0.689	4.54
1920	30,428	20.28	0.839	4.21
1921	25,337	17.03	0.651	5.00
1922	25,278	15.42	0.624	6.18
1923	29,403	14.70	0.755	7.92
1924	29,930	13.92	0.735	8.29
1925	31,179	13.33	0.759	8.70
1926	33,374	13.37	0.792	9.63
1927	32,890	13.37	0.783	8.94
1928	33,517	13.34	0.795	9.14
1929	35,663	13.41	0.812	9.40
1930	31,435	13.46	0.713	8.36
1931	26,389	13.48	0.603	7.42
1932	20,286	13.34	0.458	5.85
1933	19,502	13.31	0.440	5.48
1934	22,775	13.31	0.511	6.05
1935	25,298	13.28	0.574	6.39
1936	28,912	13.27	0.632	6.85
1937	31,708	13.24	0.705	6.99
1938	29,799	13.35	0.662	6.26
1939	31,845	13.32	0.693	6.21
1940	35,084	12.72	0.741	5.90
1941	44,085	13.38	0.913	5.79
1942	56,597	13.41	1.178	6.73
1943	69,247	13.41	1.384	7.72
1944	76,509	13.41	1.545	8.42
1945	77,736	13.38	1.597	8.77
1946	77,566	13.38	1.677	8.60
1947	85,101	13.38	1.830	8.71
1948	93,590	13.34	1.988	8.73
1949	92,908	13.32	1.902	8.00

Republic of India relative to the US economy

GDP at market prices^[13]

Year	Gross domestic product (000,000 rupees)	per USD	GDP deflator (index 2011 = 100)	Per capita income (as % of USA)
1950	102,216	4.79	2.057	3.06
1951	108,633	4.79	2.124	2.81
1952	106,634	4.78	2.031	2.61
1953	116,067	4.75	2.083	2.69
1954	109,771	4.76	1.880	2.53
1955	111,748	4.79	1.853	2.35
1956	133,139	4.78	2.092	2.65
1957	137,104	4.78	2.163	2.58
1958	152,835	4.75	2.245	2.83
1959	161,017	4.75	2.305	2.75
1960	176,333	4.77	2.392	2.73
1961	186,821	4.77	2.444	2.78
1962	200,769	4.76	2.551	2.77
1963	230,580	4.77	2.765	3.00
1964	268,953	4.78	3.001	3.23
1965	283,600	4.78	3.250	3.12
1966	321,058	6.03	3.681	2.17
1967	376,012	7.54	3.999	2.22
1968	398,141	7.54	4.095	2.13
1969	438,360	7.56	4.232	2.14
1970	468,169	7.56	4.298	2.15
1971	501,199	7.50	4.527	2.11
1972	552,453	7.55	5.018	2.02
1973	672,407	8.28	5.912	2.14
1974	793,779	8.03	6.898	2.26
1975	852,124	8.39	6.784	2.03
1976	918,117	8.97	7.190	1.87
1977	1,040,235	8.77	7.595	1.97
1978	1,126,714	8.19	7.782	1.95
1979	1,235,622	8.16	9.006	1.92
1980	1,470,629	7.89	10.043	2.12
1981	1,727,755	8.68	11.130	1.94
1982	1,932,546	9.48	12.031	1.90
1983	2,250,742	10.10	13.060	1.87
1984	2,521,882	11.35	14.095	1.62
1985	2,845,341	12.33	15.109	1.63
1986	3,183,659	12.60	16.135	1.63
1987	3,618,647	12.94	17.640	1.70
1988	4,293,630	13.90	19.092	1.65
1989	4,932,776	16.21	20.702	1.51
1990	5,761,092	17.49	22.911	1.54
1991	6,622,605	22.71	26.062	1.24
1992	7,611,959	28.16	28.398	1.25
1993	8,759,924	31.29	31.199	1.14
1994	10,275,701	31.39	34.312	1.25
1995	12,055,827	32.42	37.422	1.30
1996	13,948,160	35.51	40.257	1.33
1997	15,452,939	36.37	42.864	1.32
1998	17,722,970	41.36	46.297	1.26
1999	19,882,616	43.13	47.718	1.28
2000	21,398,857	45.00	49.457	1.22
2001	23,152,430	47.22	51.048	1.22
2002	24,926,138	48.63	52.944	1.24
2003	27,925,301	46.59	54.992	1.38
2004	31,863,319	45.26	58.141	1.50
2005	36,321,247	44.00	61.409	1.62
2006	42,546,290	45.19	66.568	1.74
2007	48,986,621	41.18	71.191	2.14
2008	55,141,524	43.39	77.736	2.06
2009	63,664,065	48.33	83.209	2.33
2010	76,344,721	45.65	91.968	2.79
2011	87,363,287	46.58	100.000	2.91
2012	99,440,131	53.37	107.934	2.79
2013	112,335,216	58.51	114.612	2.72
2014	124,679,593	61.00	118.430	2.86
2015	137,718,739	64.11	121.130	2.83
2016	153,916,690	67.20	125.052	2.99
2017	170,900,424	65.12	130.016	3.31
2018	188,996,684	68.40	135.066	3.18
2019	200,748,558	70.42	138.295	3.18
2020	198,009,138	74.10	146.041	3.07
2021	236,438,748	73.92	160.062	3.29

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13. World Bank data (since 1960)