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Trump India visit: Seven claims about India fact-checked

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Fact Check

The speech praised India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and highlighted the success of recent policies to improve the country.

We looked at some of the claims.

Claim 1: Trump said: "Since the turn of the century, the size of the Indian economy has grown over six times in size."
Reality check: Measured in terms of GDP - the sum of the value of goods and services produced in the economy - President Trump is correct.

In 2000, India's GDP was $477 billion, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). By 2019, that figure had risen to an estimated $2,940bn.

That's an increase of 6.2 times over the period 2000-2019.

Reality Check has previously looked at Prime Minister Modi's pledge to expand India's manufacturing sector.

India became the world's fifth largest economy in 2019, according to data from the IMF's World Economic Outlook.

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