gross domestic product
noun
: the gross national product excluding the value of net income earned abroad
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Today, manufacturing accounts for about $2.3 trillion of gross domestic product, employs about 12 million people and indirectly supports other local jobs.
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Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Fitch believes the general government deficit will rise to 7.1% of gross domestic product in 2024 from 5.8% last year.
—Juliana Liu, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
Federal taxes dropped from about 19% of gross domestic product in 2001 to about 16% by the start of 2020.
—Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
If a larger share of China’s gross domestic product went to bolster household income, such as through funding for education, consumer spending would rise as a share of GDP, increasing domestic demand.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2024
Across the West Bank, unemployment reached 29 percent by the end of 2023, causing a sharp decline in the gross domestic product, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
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
Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Fitch believes the general government deficit will rise to 7.1% of gross domestic product in 2024 from 5.8% last year.
—Juliana Liu, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
Federal taxes dropped from about 19% of gross domestic product in 2001 to about 16% by the start of 2020.
—Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
If a larger share of China’s gross domestic product went to bolster household income, such as through funding for education, consumer spending would rise as a share of GDP, increasing domestic demand.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2024
Across the West Bank, unemployment reached 29 percent by the end of 2023, causing a sharp decline in the gross domestic product, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
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
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“Gross domestic product.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gross%20domestic%20product. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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