gross domestic product

noun

: the gross national product excluding the value of net income earned abroad

Examples of gross domestic product in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Under a baseline scenario that assumes the economy will keep growing around the current pace, Japan will see its per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) rise just 6.2% in 2060, the Cabinet Office's estimates showed. Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024 Remittances, for instance, make up about 31% of Honduras' gross domestic product. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024 As a share of gross domestic product, today’s effort is bigger than infrastructure spending under the New Deal and the most spent in the last half-century. Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024 High tech could account for 19% of China's gross domestic product in 2026, according to Bloomberg, up from about 14.3% of GDP in 2023. John Kell, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024 According to the World Bank, China’s gross domestic product per capita has stagnated at about $12,700 (compared with more than $76,000 in the United States). Christina Knight, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024 At the end of January, public sector debt surpassed £2.6 trillion ($3.3 trillion), according to the ONS, a level not seen since the early 1960s and almost the same size as the nation’s annual gross domestic product. Hanna Ziady, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024 Consumer spending accounts for just 40 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) compared with roughly 70 percent in the United States. David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024 Her Advanced Placement economics course covers such topics as supply and demand, monetary policy, inflation, unemployment, gross domestic product, the peaks and recessions of the business cycle, fiscal policy and the Federal Reserve. Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of gross domestic product was in 1951

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“Gross domestic product.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gross%20domestic%20product. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

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