Gross domestic product, or GDP, is a measure of a country's economic output over a certain time period—usually a year. GDP is looked to as a primary indicator of a country's economic health.
A long-standing criticism of reliance on GDP as the measure of economic success is that it excludes much unpaid work by households. There must be an accepted definition of what is part of the economy ...
A country's debt-to-GDP ratio is a metric that expresses how leveraged a country is by comparing its public debt to its annual economic output. Just like people and businesses, countries often ...
Photography taken by Mario Gutiérrez. / Getty Images The gross domestic product (GDP) of a nation is an estimate of the total value of all the goods and services it produces during a specific period, ...
Gerd Altmann/Pixabay.com (CC0-PD) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an economic indicator that focuses on the value of goods and services a country produces. Gross National Income (GNI) includes ...
This week, the Commerce Department announced the U.S. had experienced two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth – meeting a common definition of a recession. But other economic factors ...
according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Though the U.S. has met one common definition of a recession – two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth – in some ways, the current economy ...