[keeda]

Hmm, despite the 13 years head start, turns out in terms of absolute and PPP GDP India and China seemed to have been neck-to-neck until ~1990, after which China really took off.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2001...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD?end=2... (no data available before 1990 apparently)