Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP can often be looked at as the total value added of every business in an economy. GDP is also an indicator of the living standard of a country. Usually, GDP is basically comparing a country’s economy yearly. For example, if a country’s year-to-year GDP is up 5%, this could mean that the country’s economy has grown by 5% over the previous year.
GDP was first developed by Simon Smith Kuznets for a US Congress report in 1934. Simon Kuznets was a Russian American economist and worked at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
GDP is a very extensive economic data and it is usually watched carefully. It is used in the United States of America by the White House and Congress to prepare the Federal budget and used by Wall Street to indicate the economic activities. The business community also use GDP when preparing forecasts of economic performance that provide the basis for production, investment, and employment planning.
Real GDP vs. Nominal GDP
GDP is calculated by using the market value of final