Manufacturing pulls down Q4 GDP to 7.4 pc; FY25 growth to 6.5 pc

INDIA'S economic growth slowed to 7.4 per cent in the January-March period, and pulled down the annual growth rate for 2024-25 to a four-year low of 6.5 per cent, mainly due to the manufacturing sector, official data showed on Friday.

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The size of the Indian economy rose to Rs 330.68 lakh crore or about USD 3.9 trillion and set the stage for achieving the USD 5 trillion target in the next few years.

In the previous 2023-24 fiscal year, the economy grew 9.2 per cent.

China has registered an economic growth of 5.4 per cent in the first three months of 2025.

The economic expansion was recorded at 7.4 per cent during January-March 2025, while it was 6.4 per cent in October-December 2024, 5.6 per cent in July-September 2024, and 6.5 per cent in the April-June quarter of the last financial year, according to economic estimates released by the National Statistics Office (NSO).

The GDP had expanded by 8.4 per cent in the January-March quarter of 2023-24.

The NSO, in its second advance estimate released in February, had projected the GDP growth for 2024-25 at 6.5 per cent.