What GDP is and why it matters While imperfect, the metric carries major real-world implications, experts said.

The threat of a looming recession has heightened interest in the most commonly used measure of economic health: Gross domestic product, or GDP. "It's the sum of everything the country makes," Luke ...

GDP is one of the most important numbers in modern economics, but few people really know what it means. Learn what you need to know in this handy explainer.

Gross domestic product, or GDP, represents the total value of all goods and services produced within a country during one year. Depending on the report, one year can be either one fiscal year or ...

Gross domestic product, or GDP, represents the total value of all goods and services produced within a country during one year. Depending on the report, one year can be either one fiscal year or ...

This Explainer explores how the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used in measuring our economic growth and whether alternative measures are also needed to provide a better measure of economic progress.

GDP is significant because it offers insight into the bedrock activity level upon which all economic outcomes depend, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told ABC News.

What even is "the economy"? And how do you measure it? Our path out of the economic darkness and into the light has been guided in large part by one single statistic: GDP. This week: the origins ...

When we focus on the topline GDP number, we lose focus of its implications (or lack thereof) on inequality, climate change, and well-being.

India’s Q1 FY26 GDP rose 7.8%, but analysts say low deflator inflated growth by 100 bps. Experts warn GDP may stay overstated through FY26 due to statistical quirks.