How to Use gross domestic product in a Sentence

gross domestic product

noun
  • That’s more than the gross domestic product of most of the world’s countries.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • For the full year, gross domestic product grew 2.1 percent.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Gates called for countries to donate 0.7% of their gross domestic product to aid.
    Francine Lacqua, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • As a country, the US spends more on health care than any other high-income country in the world—on the basis of both per-person costs and a share of gross domestic product.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Spanish gross domestic product on Friday is the first from the area’s key members showing what happened in the third quarter.
    Vince Golle, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The state’s statutory spending cap would be set to an average of 11.5% of the state’s gross domestic product over the preceding five years.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2023
  • This lower figure — $26.9 trillion — is roughly equal in size to the U.S. gross domestic product.
    Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Forecasters expect gross domestic product to fall over the second and third quarters of this year, the survey found.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Moore argued the state’s gross domestic product grew at half the pace of the nation’s for the past decade because other states made strategic investments that Maryland did not.
    Erin Cox, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Monday’s figures showed that gross domestic product rose less than 1% from the first quarter, while retail sales for June rose less than forecast.
    Christopher Condon, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • The central bank now projects gross domestic product to grow 3% this year, up from its previous estimate of 2.3%.
    Anthony Harrup, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The value of high-growth, disruptive tech companies is equivalent to about 7.3% of the U.S. gross domestic product.
    Raphaelle D’ornano, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Peru is the second-largest copper exporter in the world and mining accounts for almost 10% of its gross domestic product and 60% of its exports.
    Regina Garcia Cano, ajc, 10 Dec. 2022
  • If the forecast is realised, the tourism industry would represent about 12.2% of Spain's gross domestic product.
    Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • By 2037, world gross domestic product will have doubled as developing economies catch up with the richer ones.
    Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Last year, Russia recorded a deficit equaling 2.3% of gross domestic product.
    Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • According to Ukraine’s own estimates, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell by nearly a third in 2022.
    Alex Holmes, NBC News, 21 June 2023
  • The gross domestic product will grow by 1.3%, roughly half the typical historical pace of 2.5%.
    Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • For context, North Korea's gross domestic product hovers around the $29 billion mark.
    Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 2 Feb. 2023
  • As a share of gross domestic product, today’s effort is bigger than infrastructure spending under the New Deal and the most spent in the last half-century.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Japan slipped behind Germany in 2023 to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, based on its nominal gross domestic product, or GDP.
    Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The stoppage threatens to destabilize an industry that makes up about 3 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.
    Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Instead of looking at the bottom line number, many economists prefer look at the amount of debt America holds versus the size of its gross domestic product.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Even so, the pace of new home sales so far this quarter has been higher than in the second, and that in turn means housing construction will likely provide a boost to third-quarter growth in gross domestic product.
    Justin Lahart, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2023
  • In absolute terms, the staggering loss of $10.1 trillion equates roughly to the annual gross domestic product of Germany, the U.K., and France combined.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The Fed also will release its latest projections for gross domestic product growth, the job market and consumer prices Wednesday.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The World Economic Forum reckons that more than half of the global gross domestic product, about $44 trillion, relies to some extent on nature.
    Nick Studer, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The country’s gross domestic product expanded by a better-than-expected 4.9% in the third quarter, according to the NBS on Wednesday.
    Laura He, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The gross domestic product figure released Tuesday for the fiscal third quarter shows a slowing of growth compared with the preceding two quarters.
    Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The remarks came as part of an interview following the latest gross domestic product report.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2023

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