Economic growth information

Gross domestic product real growth rates, 1990–1998 and 1990–2006, in selected countries

Rate of change of gross domestic product, world and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, since 1961

Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year.^[1] Statisticians conventionally measure such growth as the percent rate of increase in the real and nominal gross domestic product (GDP).^[2]

Growth is usually calculated in real terms – i.e., inflation-adjusted terms – to eliminate the distorting effect of inflation on the prices of goods produced. Measurement of economic growth uses national income accounting.^[3] Since economic growth is measured as the annual percent change of gross domestic product (GDP), it has all the advantages and drawbacks of that measure. The economic growth-rates of countries are commonly compared using the ratio of the GDP to population (per-capita income).^[4]

The "rate of economic growth" refers to the geometric annual rate of growth in GDP between the first and the last year over a period of time. This growth rate represents the trend in the average level of GDP over the period, and ignores any fluctuations in the GDP around this trend.

Economists refer to economic growth caused by more efficient use of inputs (increased productivity of labor, of physical capital, of energy or of materials) as intensive growth. In contrast, GDP growth caused only by increases in the amount of inputs available for use (increased population, for example, or new territory) counts as extensive growth.^[5]

Development of new goods and services also generates economic growth. As it so happens, in the U.S. about 60% of consumer spending in 2013 went on goods and services that did not exist in 1869.^[6]

^ Roser, Max (2021). "What is economic growth? And why is it so important?". Our World in Data.
^ Statistics on the Growth of the Global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 2003 to 2013 Archived 2013-05-03 at the Wayback Machine, IMF, October 2012. - "Gross domestic product, also called GDP, is the market value of goods and services produced by a country in a certain time period."
^ Bjork 1999, p. 251.
^ Bjork 1999, p. 67.
^ Bjork 1999, pp. 2, 67.
^ Gordon, Robert J. (29 August 2017). The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton University Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-691-17580-5.

[1] Roser, Max (2021). "What is economic growth? And why is it so important?". Our World in Data.

[2] Statistics on the Growth of the Global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 2003 to 2013 Archived 2013-05-03 at the Wayback Machine, IMF, October 2012. - "Gross domestic product, also called GDP, is the market value of goods and services produced by a country in a certain time period."

[FOOTNOTEBjork1999251-3] Bjork 1999, p. 251.

[FOOTNOTEBjork199967-4] Bjork 1999, p. 67.

[FOOTNOTEBjork1999[httpsarchiveorgdetailswayitworkedwhyit0000bjorpage2_2],_[httpsarchiveorgdetailswayitworkedwhyit0000bjorpage67_67]-5] Bjork 1999, pp. 2, 67.

[6] Gordon, Robert J. (29 August 2017). The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton University Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-691-17580-5.

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