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
  • By the early 1990s, its gross domestic product had caught up with that of Great Britain, the fifth-largest in the world.
    Alexander Stille, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
  • If Texas were a country, its gross domestic product would be one of the highest in the world.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
  • If Texas were a country, its gross domestic product would be one of the highest in the world.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The first three months of the year saw a surprise decline in gross domestic product.
    Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2022
  • That sum is roughly one-third of all the goods and services — the gross domestic product — produced in the United States in one year.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • For the full year, gross domestic product grew 2.1 percent.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Ukraine also says about 35% of its gross domestic product has been wiped out.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
  • At the end of last year, France’s government debt amounted to 110.6% of gross domestic product.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 1 July 2024
  • Gates called for countries to donate 0.7% of their gross domestic product to aid.
    Francine Lacqua, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The country's debts are now almost 100% of its gross domestic product.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The gross domestic product decreased at an annual rate of 1.5% in the first quarter.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2022
  • The report measured real-time growth in gross domestic product for the year till August 2022.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The next round of gross domestic product figures will be released July 28.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • Prior research has projected the loss to the country’s gross domestic product in the first school year of the pandemic’ to top $15 trillion, and the gloomy outlook doesn’t stop there.
    al, 16 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Investors are eagerly awaiting the first read on gross domestic product, or GDP, for the third quarter.
    Cnn Business, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Today, no nation in Africa spends more than 2% of its gross domestic product on health and very few high-income countries are close to their 0.7% targets.
    Muhammad Ali Pate and Michelle A. Williams, STAT, 9 May 2022
  • 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 second-quarter reading of the change in gross domestic product showed a decline of 0.9% from the previous quarter, when the economy shrank by 1.6%.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • The Fed’s projections call for growth in gross domestic product of just 0.2 percent this year, down from 1.7 percent in its June estimate.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The data was included in the advance gross domestic product report for the third quarter, which was published on Wednesday.
    Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024

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