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A regime comparison of the two periods' averages
Averaged over the UPA period, the data give 6.8% GDP growth, a 20.4% top 1% income share, and a press-freedom rank of about 120. Unemployment and formal employment have no series on the PLFS basis for the UPA years, so those two are marked as not available.
What follows. The regime comparison is mechanical. It averages the data and interprets nothing, and it does not flatter either side.
Real GDP growth
2004-2013 average 6.8%; 2014-2026 average 6.2%; latest 7.7% in 2025. Source, method and every year.
One of 37 readings of the dataset. Data vintage 2026-10-19. Cite as Raman, V.S., Some Perspective: India's Political Economy, 2004-2026, someperspective.info, CC BY 4.0.