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.

Economists have historically used GDP per capita to determine the richest country in the world, but that's misleading when ...

Investopedia / Michela Buttignol The real economic growth rate, or real GDP growth rate, measures economic growth, as expressed by gross domestic product (GDP), from one period to another ...

This universally accepted measure of national production usually tracks human misery more closely than happiness ...

GDP is a flawed measure of the health of an economy at the best of times, and it’s time we paid attention to a different ...

The ratio compares a country’s debt to its annual economic output (gross domestic product). The higher a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio, the less likely it is to be able to pay off its debts in a ...

For the first time since 2009, the U.S. gross domestic product was negative for two ... Though the U.S. has met one common definition of a recession – two consecutive quarters of negative ...

Mainstream economists often base their analysis upon assumptions that do not square with reality. Austrian economics, on the ...

It may not mean getting back to ultra-low interest rates and an economy that was booming pre-pandemic because there were such losses after the Great Recession to make up.

Their results show that modeling monetary damages instead of physical measures of environmental quality yields results that ...

It represents the sum of past deficits. Economists focus on the ratio of debt to a nation’s gross domestic product as an indicator of its sustainability. The federal government’s annual budget ...

Stock market, GDP, household wealth and jobs are all up. Why are voters down on economy? Poverty data reveals ironic economic nostalgia.