India Overtakes France to Become World’s Sixth-Largest Economy
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India has overtaken France to become the world’s sixth biggest economy, latest data from the World Bank show. The South Asian nation is now a $2.597 trillion economy and only a tad higher than France’s $2.582 trillion. It will be the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2022, according to projections by the International Monetary Fund.