Answer: Option A
Answer: (a)
India's population growth rate is around 1 per cent annually. Real GDP and Real GNP growth have been more than 5 per cent in the last five years.
If GDP is represented by Y and population by P. Then per capita GDP is Y/P
suppose the growth in GDP is 5% i.e. Y to 1.05 Y
And the growth rate in the population is 1% P to 1.01 P So, the growth in per capita GDP (Y/P) will be 1.05Y/1.01P = 1.0396 Y/P
So, the growth in per capita GDP (Y/P) will be 3.96%
So, till the time growth in GDP (Y) is more than the growth in population (P), then per capita GDP will always increase. (In fact, our GDP/GNP has always increased more than 4% in the last 30 years). If the growth of population and growth of GDP is the same then per capita GDP growth will be zero.
Hence, Real per capita GDP and real per capita GNP has steadily increased in the last five years.