The country’s growth also got a boost this year when
government statisticians changed the way they calculated GDP.
From the linked article:
The Indian statistics ministry said that after updating the base year
used for marking trends in the economy and switching to a
market-price calculation of gross domestic product, the economy grew
by 6.9% in the year that ended last March. Using the previous
methodology, GDP expansion that year was 4.7%. China’s economy grew
by 7.4% in the 2014 calendar year.
