The given chart illustrates India’s GDP shares on 3 main sectors: agriculture, industry, services during 40 years period from 1960 to 2000.
Overall, while the amount agriculture sector was decreasing steadily by the end of the given period the opposite is true for other services.
Looking at the years when agriculture field featured majority of GDP, in 1960 it reached its peak of around 62% while the other two sectors were almost at the same level of 15%. However, agriculture has been reducing noticably by the end of the period, and even showed the lowest share of GDP only with 14% in 2000.
Rising slowly by the year of 1980, the services showed the significant grow in its rate in next two decades, 45% and 63%, respectively. GDP contribution for the industry field was also raising regularly by the 1980 and remained its approximate 25% level by the end of the period.
