Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a key indicator that helps us see how strong a country's economy is. It represents the total value of all goods and services made in a country over a specific period, ...

Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used as a benchmark of society’s progress. Yet, as the GDP figures keep ticking up, so too does a profound disenchantment with the political and ...

The United Nations High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Beyond GDP comprises 14 globally recognized experts appointed in May 2025, drawing on expertise in economics, statistics, development policy, ...

Proposed UN progress indicators include greenhouse gas emissions, life expectancy and children's performance in reading and ...

It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product ...

We asked experts about the potential benefits and drawbacks of moving away from GDP as a measure of growth in the UK.

The UN is set to present its first global framework for measuring progress beyond GDP, offering country‑owned, universally applicable indicators to guide policy toward human well‑being and ...

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 ...

Since World War II, most countries around the world have come to use gross domestic product, or GDP, as the core metric for prosperity. The GDP measures market output: the monetary value of all the ...