How to Use gross national product in a Sentence

gross national product

noun

• The limit gets adjusted every year, based on the change in gross national product.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
• By 1968, Japan was rich, second only to the United States in gross national product, and one of the most polluted countries on earth.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• Economic loss could rise to $7 billion, more than half of the country's gross national product.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Economic loss could rise to $7 billion, more than half of the country’s gross national product.
  — Andrea Sachs, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019
• The economy has been in recession for 12 years; gross national product has fallen by 15% in that time.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• About 40 percent of Fiji's gross national product (GNP) comes from the tourism industry.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
• The heavyweights might demand to use oxygen between rounds, and Alvarez might refuse to fight unless he is made king of Mexico, with a percentage of the country’s gross national product.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• That amounted to 4% of Mexico’s gross national product.
  — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• The conflict was costly, about $32 billion, or about half of that era’s gross national product, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
  — USA Today, 22 May 2020
• The new fiscal plan comes as island officials estimate its gross national product will contract deeply in the year ending in June, officials told reporters today in San Juan.
  — Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• In addition, military spending as a percentage of gross national product is also in a decline.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
• In search of better tools to manage the economy, the federal government commissioned economists in the 1930s to calculate gross national product.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
• The study discusses three policy scenarios that could lower CO2-related pollutants and their costs as a fraction of China's gross national product.
  — John Fialka, Scientific American, 26 July 2019
• The gas subsidies, which amount to nearly 2 percent of the country’s gross national product, are starving other sectors of the economy, according to Andrés Albuja, an economic analyst.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2022
• The country’s hotels, resorts, museums, restaurants, galleries and countless other destinations are estimated to produce more than 15 percent of the gross national product.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 4 June 2019
• Indeed, the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness estimates corruption eats away 2 to 10 percent of gross national product and reduces foreign investment by 5 percent a year.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2018

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024