China GDP: economic recovery from coronavirus ‘increasingly visible’ as IMF lifts China, global outlook China’s economy is now estimated to grow by 8.4 per cent in 2021, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an increase of 0.3 percentage points from January’s prediction Global growth is estimated to be 6.0 per cent in 2021, although concerns remain over the recovery speed of different economies, global vaccination roll-outs and unresolved trade tensions