It’s surprising that so many here don’t question the validity of the statistics behind the claim that the Indian GDP has overtaken Great Britain. I don’t believe it. Not at all. And I’ve never believed that the Chinese GDP ever overtook Japan, either. We shall soon see in our new Trump-world that these sorts of claims are just propagandistic horsedung. Like the continuous claims made by the world-wide left-wing media that the US has been overtaken by some socialistic backwater or other in some quality-of-life or economic matter, usually Green-driven or tyrannically inspired. We just witnessed the greatest repudiation of the claims of all of the left-wing media outlets with Trump’s victory. Why do we continue to accept their lies uncritically? We all should know better now.
Neither do I. All of these government statistics (including our own) are compiled by summing up prices of goods and services sold. When a government is actively manipulating those prices either by subsidy or by regulation or by tariffs then the resulting statistics are polluted.
“According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book Contours of the world economy, 1–2030 AD: essays in macro-economic history, India had the world’s largest economy during the years 1 AD and 1000 AD.[17]”
....from Wiki