India, Jan. 28 -- India's economic growth has often exceeded the projections made in the Economic Survey, with 2025-26 expecting to record 7.4 per cent growth as against the 6.3-6.8 per cent projection made in the pre-Budget document.

The GDP growth in 2023-24 worked out to be 9.2 per cent as against the Survey's projection of 6-6.8 per cent.

However, in 2024-25, economic growth was 6.5 per cent, in line with the projection of 6.5-7 per cent. The analysis indicates that the target was missed in 2022-23, when the actual economic growth was 7.6 per cent as against the Economic Survey's projection of 8-8.5 per cent. In 2021-22, due to COVID, the Economic Survey did not make any projection, but the growth worked out to be 9.7 per cent, main...