75th Independence Day: How India and Pakistan's economy fared since partition

India and Pakistan — two of the biggest

South Asian

nations — started their economic journey around the same time after gaining

Independence

. Not many know that there was a point in the 1960s when Pakistan's per capita GDP used to be higher than that of India's. However, over the years, India has not only surpassed Pakistan's per capita GDP but taken a commanding lead on almost every economic front. Let's take a look at how the

economy

of both countries fared since partition.

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