New Delhi: India continues to stay the world’s fastest-growing main economic system and the one nation anticipated to clock over 6 per cent progress within the subsequent two years, in accordance with an IMF report launched on Tuesday, which has trimmed the expansion forecast for over 120 nations. 

IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath mentioned, “Our April 2025 World Financial Outlook tasks considerably weaker international progress at 2.8 per cent for 2025 with progress downgrades for 127 nations making up 86 per cent of world GDP.”

“The trail ahead requires readability and predictability on commerce insurance policies. Nations ought to tackle structural challenges to rebuild resilience and restore progress momentum,” Gopinath added in a publish on X.

The outlook report pegs the Indian economic system to develop at 6.2 per cent in 2025 and 6.3 per cent in 2026, which is over 2 share factors above second-ranked China’s financial progress forecast at 4 per cent for 2025 and 4.6 per cent in 2026.

The US, which has triggered the tariff turmoil throughout the globe, is anticipated to see its GDP progress sluggish to 1.8 per cent this 12 months, which is anticipated to say no additional to 1.7 per cent in 2026, in accordance with the IMF report.

Equally, the Euro Space is forecast to sluggish to a mere 0.8 per cent progress fee in 2025 earlier than it makes a gentle restoration at 1.2 per cent in 2026. Germany is anticipated to be the toughest hit with zero progress in 2025, adopted by 0.9 per cent in 2026, whereas France is predicted to publish a 0.6 per cent and 1 per cent progress for the 2 years, respectively. Spain is anticipated to do higher than the opposite in 2025 as the one European nation to clock a 2.5 per cent progress fee. Nonetheless, it’s anticipated to decelerate to 1.8 per cent in 2026. The UK is anticipated to publish a 1.1 and 1.4 per cent progress respectively for the 2 years.

Japan can be anticipated to be exhausting hit by the worldwide commerce warfare, with its progress stagnating at 0.6 per cent for each years.

The IMF launched the April 2025 World Financial Outlook (WEO) report in Washington on Tuesday.

The report mentioned that shortly after the January 2025 WEO Replace, the US introduced a number of waves of tariffs on main buying and selling companions and significant sectors.

“Because of this, we anticipate that the sharp enhance on April 2 in each tariffs and uncertainty will result in a big slowdown in international progress within the close to time period,” the report mentioned, whereas projecting international progress to drop to 2.8 per cent in 2025 and three per cent in 2026 — down from 3.3 per cent for each years in its January replace.