power parity [PPP] international dollars) of the PRC was lower than that of India
in the 1980s, but in the early 1990s, the PRC surpassed India. In 2011, the PRC’s
GDP per capita was $8,442, while that of India was $3,650. This is, of course,
because economic growth in the PRC was a lot faster than in India during the
period, as seen in Figure 11.2.