India's total exports are in the same ballpark as the Netherlands, a country with half the population of the city of Bombay.
replyIndia may not be a poor country, but GDP doesn't capture the real state of india's wealth.
The denominator
replyThe page you need to look at is GDP per capita:
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
…which lists India as #148, below countries like Zimbabwe, Haiti, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Palestine.
That only matters if you want to know how much an average individual can spend. Gross GDP is more relevant when you're discussing how much the state could spend on defence programs.
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