Learn how GDP measures economic performance and influences financial decisions for economists and investors. Discover its impact on the economy and investment strategies.

You may have read last week that Canada's real gross domestic product grew at a 2.5-per-cent annual rate in the first quarter, a pretty good showing in light of the current economic slowdown. Compared ...

There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final transactions, so all the goods or services bought and ...

How should we measure changes in an economy's standard of living, or compare living standards across countries? Typically, economists use GDP per capita as a proxy for a country's standard of living, ...

Paul Allin is a member of the UK National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Committee and he is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Officer for National Statistics. Views expressed in this ...

Liz McKeownDirector of Economic StatisticsOffice for National Statistics Monthly GDP is a closely followed statistic, showing ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's statistics bureau said on Wednesday it has changed the way quarterly gross domestic product data is calculated, a move it calls a step to adopt international standards and ...

Like other facets of the federal bureaucracy, government-collected data could soon bear the imprints of the Trump administration. The change would likely prove costly for banks and other businesses.

This last piece in a 5-article series, adapted from a speech I gave at a BritishAmerican Business virtual conference in September, suggests that while GDP has served a useful purpose in terms of ...

As an emerging research area, application of satellite-based nighttime lights data in the social sciences has increased rapidly in recent years. This study, building on the recent surge in the use of ...

This Economic Letter discusses a topic that at first glance appears to be boring and technical but that in fact turns out to be quite important: the proper interpretation of chain-weighted data. To ...