GDP growth estimated at 7.7% in 2025-26, with Q4 growth hitting 7.8%

Key points

• Growth in India’s gross domestic product has been estimated at 7.7% in the overall financial year 2025-26 and at 7.8% in the fourth quarter of that year, according to data released by the government on Friday (June 5, 2026).
• The GDP had grown at 7.1% in the previous financial year of 2024-25. According to the data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the provisional estimates of GDP growth in 2025-26 is slightly faster than the 7.6% that had been estimated in February 2026. The data also comes at a time when Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday, while announcing the Monetary Policy Committee’s decisions, said that GDP growth in the ongoing year 2026-27 was expected to slow to 6.6%.
• In the press conference on the GDP data, Chief Economic Advisor V.
• Anantha Nageswaran said that the RBI’s assessment of GDP and inflation “seem fair...