India’s Trade-GDP Ratio Higher Than US, China’s
Historically, India has been viewed as being far less vulnerable to global financial crises than other large economies because it was much less integrated with the global economy than countries like, say, the US or China. Today, however, at least as far as trade goes, the opposite is true. World Bank data shows that in 2014 India’s total trade (exports plus imports) was equivalent to about 50% of its GDP. This was higher than the trade to GDP ratio of the US, Japan or China. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which India escaped relatively unscathed, total foreign trade was equivalent to only 22.2% of the country’s GDP. Details
