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Which state in India has the fastest growth rate? Sikkim tops the charts with a growth rate of 20.53 per cent based on compounded annual growth rate in the last five years.
1. Sikkim
5 Years CAGR (%): 20.53
India's fastest growing states
Image: Mt Nanda Devi.Photographs: Anirban c8/Wikimedia Commons.
2. Uttarakhand
5 Years CAGR (%): 13.60
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India's fastest growing states
Image: Rastrapati Bhavan illuminated marking the end of the annual Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi.Photographs: Reuters.
3. New Delhi
5 Years CAGR (%): 11.46
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Image: A man cycles past residential apartments in Patna.Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters.
4. Bihar
5 Years CAGR (%): 11.00
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Image: Aerial view of Andaman Island.Photographs: Venkatesh K/Wikimedia Commons.
5. Andaman & Nicobar
5 Years CAGR (%): 10.35
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Image: Mizoram.Photographs: Courtesy, mizotourism.nic.in.
6. Mizoram
5 Years CAGR (%): 9.70
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Image: An aerial view shows the Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh.Photographs: Utpal Baruah/Reuters.
7. Arunachal Pradesh
5 Years CAGR (%): 9.36
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Image: School children dressed in tri-colours of India's national flag, offer prayers on the eve of the country's Independence Day celebrations in Ahmedabad.Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters.
8. Gujarat
5 Years CAGR (%): 9.34
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Image: A boy sits on a cart in front of a solar power plant at Meerwada village of Guna district in Madhya Pradesh.Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters.
9. Madhya Pradesh
5 Years CAGR (%): 9.34
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Image: Netarhat.Photographs: Courtesy, Jharkhand Tourism.
10. Jharkhand
5 Years CAGR (%): 9.07
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Image: A water tanker moves past Malibu Towne residential apartments at Gurgaon.Photographs: Parivartan Sharma/Reuters.
11. Haryana
5 Years CAGR (%): 9.06
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Image: Tourists fly a paraglider over Baga beach in Goa.Photographs: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters.
12. Goa
5 Years CAGR (%): 9.01
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Image: Pondicherry.Photographs: Adyan Prabhakaran.
13. Puduchery (Pondichery)
5 Years CAGR (%): 8.96
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Image: A tea garden worker sprays insecticide at the Durgabari tea garden estate on the outskirts of Agartala.Photographs: Jayanta Dey/Reuters.
14. Tripura
5 Years CAGR (%): 8.67
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Image: Parvati Barua, the only woman elephant-catcher in Asia, pats her pet.Photographs: Kamal Kishore/Reuters.
15. Chhattisgarh
5 Years CAGR (%): 8.40
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Image: A woman carrying a child walks past a construction site for a commercial building on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.Photographs: Krishnendu Halder/Reuters.
16. Andhra Pradesh
5 Years CAGR (%): 8.29
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Image: Workers walk inside the Jindal Power and Steel Ltd. complex at Nisha village in Orissa.Photographs: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters.
17. Orissa
5 Years CAGR (%): 8.22
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Image: A garden in Chandigarh.Photographs: Chandigarh Tourism.
18. Chandigarh
5 Years CAGR (%): 8.13
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Image: Munnar, Kerala.Photographs: Shibin K K.
19. Kerala
5 Years CAGR (%): 8.03
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Image: Umiam Lake.Photographs: Courtesy, Meghalaya Tourism.
20. Meghalaya
5 Years CAGR (%): 8.02
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Image: An employee assembles a part of a BharatBenz truck inside Daimler's new factory in Oragadam, in the Kancheepuram district.Photographs: Babu/Reuters.
21. Tamil Nadu
5 Years CAGR (%): 7.70
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Image: A man walks past a ship docked at a ship breaking yard in Mumbai.22. Maharashtra
5 Years CAGR (%): 7.67
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Image: Commuters ride inside a carriage of a Namma Metro in Bangalore.Photographs: Vivek Prakash/Reuters.
23. Karnataka
5 Years CAGR (%): 7.55
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Image: An employee works at an assembly line of Twister motorcycle at the newly inaugurated plant of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) Pte in Tapukara in Rajasthan.Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters.
24. Rajasthan
5 Years CAGR (%): 7.20
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Image: A worker at LG Electronics India Pvt Ltd. assembles refrigerators inside a factory at Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh.Photographs: B Mathur/Reuters.
25. Uttar Pradesh
5 Years CAGR (%): 6.95
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Image: Twelve-year-old Chatu collects lemons at a wholesale fruit market in Kolkata.Photographs: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters.
26. West Bengal
5 Years CAGR (%): 6.89
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Image: An employee works inside a tea producing factory at the Amchong tea estate in Assam.Photographs: Utpal Baruah/Reuters.
27. Assam
5 Years CAGR (%): 6.85
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Image: A labourer waters water chestnuts after he collected them from a pond in Motte Majra village in Punjab.Photographs: Ajay Verma/Reuters.
28. Punjab
5 Years CAGR (%): 6.73
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Image: Vendors wait for customers at Ima Market, one of the largest markets operated by women in Asia, in Imphal.Photographs: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters.
29. Manipur
5 Years CAGR (%): 6.51
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Image: An Indian woman carries her daughter in Khonoma village, on the outskirts of Kohima.Photographs: Reuters.
30.Nagaland
5 Years CAGR (%): 6.16
31. Jammu & Kashmir
5 Years CAGR (%): 6.01
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