Harvard economist Jason Furman has highlighted India’s remarkable economic outperformance in a new comparative growth chart shared on X (formerly Twitter), offering one of the clearest visualisations yet of how major economies have fared relative to their pre-pandemic trajectories.

“How some geopolitically relevant economies are doing relative to their pre-COVID trends,” Furman wrote, posting a graph that compares real GDP as a percentage of pre-pandemic trends for the US, Euro Area, China, Russia and India from 2019 to Q3 2025. Advertisement

The illustration shows a striking divergence: while most economies continue to exhibit pandemic-era scarring, India’s GDP shoots above trend, climbing toward +5% by mid-2025 and standing alone as the only major economy meaningfully exceeding its lo

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