national income
noun
: the aggregate of earnings from a nation's current production including compensation of employees, interest, rental income, and profits of business after taxes
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Foreign aid accounted for 18% of Kiribati’s national income in 2022, according to the Lowy Institute – with New Zealand among its largest donors.
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Helen Regan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
McKinley was indeed successful in raising large sums of money for the U.S. government several decades before the first national income tax was implemented.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
When measured correctly, labor’s share of national income has been roughly constant at about 70 percent—for the last century.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The infant mortality rate declined by half, and the gross national income per capita nearly tripled (in real terms in purchasing power, from US$810 in 2001 to $2,590 in 2020.
—Harry Anthony Patrinos, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2025
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Helen Regan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
McKinley was indeed successful in raising large sums of money for the U.S. government several decades before the first national income tax was implemented.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
When measured correctly, labor’s share of national income has been roughly constant at about 70 percent—for the last century.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The infant mortality rate declined by half, and the gross national income per capita nearly tripled (in real terms in purchasing power, from US$810 in 2001 to $2,590 in 2020.
—Harry Anthony Patrinos, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2025
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“National income.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/national%20income. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.
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