Current Affairs - Places - Discussion

According to Oxford Economics report, the top 10 fastest growing cities in the world from 2019 to 2035 are in India. Gujarat's Surat tops the list followed by Uttar Pradesh's Agra. Surat, a diamond processing and trading center in the western state of Gujarat, will see the fastest expansion through 2035, averaging more than 9 percent. Agra and Bangalore gets 2nd and 3rd spot respectively. By 2035, the GDP of Asian countries will be 17 percent higher than all North American and European urban centers combined. Mumbai was termed as the world's 12th richest city with a total wealth of $950 billion and India is the 6th largest wealth market in the world (in terms of total wealth held) after USA, China, Japan, Germany and the UK.