According to the data provided in the report, the GDP share of Andhra Pradesh was 4.6 percent in 2010-11, which increased marginally to 4.9 percent in 2020-21, and again decreased to 4.6 percent in 2023-24.
Published Sep 18, 2024 | 7:08 PM ⚊ Updated Sep 18, 2024 | 10:16 PM
Andhra Pradesh GDP remains flat. (iStock)
The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister in the recently released report titled “Relative Economic Performance of Indian States: 1960-61 to 2023-24” reported that the share of Andhra Pradesh in the national GDP has remained broadly flat.
According to the data provided in the report, the GDP share of Andhra Pradesh was 4.6 percent in 2010-11, which increased marginally to 4.9 percent in 2020-21, and again decreased to 4.6 percent in 2023-24.
While the GDP share of Telangana increased from 3.8 percent to 4.9 percent in the same period.
Telangana was bifurcated from united Andhra Pradesh in 2014, however, the data is available since 2010-11.
Undivided Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh plus Telangana) now accounts for 9.7 percent (4.7 percent Andhra Pradesh and 4.9 percent Telangana), of GDP share an increase of 2.1 percentage points since 1990-91 (7.6 percent) with most of the increase in share accounted for by Telangana.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka stood at second and fourth positions of highest GDP share in the country with 8.9 and 8.2 percent respectively. The southern states together accounted for approximately 30 percent of India’s GDP in 2023-2024.
Moving to the per capita income, the report noted that, though the per capita incomes for all the southern states have grown, the pace has not been the same for all. The report further highlighted that “Andhra Pradesh and Telangana after the bifurcation have grown at quite different rates, with Telangana’s growth being significantly higher.”
Performance of states. (GDP and per capita income).
While the per capita income of the state in 2023-24 is higher than the national average, it is still the lowest among the five southern states with 36 percent higher than the national average.
According to the MoSPI data, the per capita income of the then-undivided Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) was, 89 percent of the national average in the 1960-61, which increased to 92.4 percent of the national average in 1970-71. However, in 1980-81, it reduced to 75 of the national average, which increased marginally in 1990-91 to 79.9. In 2000-01, there was a jump in the per capita income to 100.9 percent of the national average, which is slightly crossing the national average.
The data from 2010-11 has been separated for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
For Andhra Pradesh, the per capita income in 2010-11 was 108.1 of the national average, while its counterpart Telangana had 123.9 percent of the national average.
Similarly in 2020-21 and 2023-24 had 132.1 and 131.6 percent of the national average, lower than Telangana.
Meanwhile, the relative per capita income in Telangana is now 193.6 percent of the national average, while Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala have per capita incomes 181 percent, 171 percent, and 152.5 percent of the national average, respectively.
(Edited by Sumavarsha Kandula.)
