A comparative graphical analysis of India and Pakistan economy throughout the years

[abhay]

A comparative graphical analysis of India and Pakistan economy throughout the years.






https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPD@WEO/PAK/IND

 

[Pete Rose]

These are interesting but not particularly useful charts. India should be compared to China and its looks very very poor there.
Pakistan should be compared to, say, Bangladesh and we look very poor there.
Ppl who compare India and Pakistan is basically a fight about who belongs to the bottom of the barrel.
Macroeconomic comparison should usually be between similar sized countries

 

[GBK_Fan]

What a lame post. Do some more comparative analysis if you want to have a discussion

 

[Dios]

I get what the OP is trying to say - In 1993, in nominal terms the Indian economy was only 4.2 times the size of the Pakistani economy, whereas, in 2019, the Indian economy is now 10.7 times the size of the Pakistani economy.

The OP should have included population too to really drive his point home. According to World Bank, in 1993, India's population was 7.9 times the population of Pakistan, whereas, in 2017, the ratio has reduced to 6.8 due to the higher population growth rate in Pakistan.

So the takeaway of this thread is that despite Pakistan's population growing more, in relative terms, than India's between 1993 and now, the gap between the economies of the two countries have widened. But I don't think this is eye-opening news to anyone given the performance of the two economies in recent years.

 

[GBK_Fan]

I get what the OP is trying to say - In 1993, in nominal terms the Indian economy was only 4.2 times the size of the Pakistani economy, whereas, in 2019, the Indian economy is now 10.7 times the size of the Pakistani economy.

The OP should have included population too to really drive his point home. According to World Bank, in 1993, India's population was 7.9 times the population of Pakistan, whereas, in 2017, the ratio has reduced to 6.8 due to the higher population growth rate in Pakistan.

So the takeaway of this thread is that despite Pakistan's population growing more, in relative terms, than India's between 1993 and now, the gap between the economies of the two countries have widened. But I don't think this is eye-opening news to anyone given the performance of the two economies in recent years.

Exactly!! How is this news?

 

[USaqaf]

This is a poor comparison , India is 4 times the size of Pakistan population wise therefore like others said it should be compared with China instead.
However there are some comparisons that can be made, culturally N India and Pakistan share a more common mercantile culture than S India.
S India and Maharashtra are far more advanced than N and E India from an infrastructure and ease of doing business perspective.

 

[ahsan17]

And yet the poverty rate in India is far higher than Pakistan. Why?

 

[USaqaf]

Very simple reason, the bulk of poverty is in Bihar, UP.
These 2 States combined have a population of around 300 million. The corruption here was probably worse than anywhere else on Earth till quite recently.