GDP

plural GDPs

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableusuallyeconomicsInitialism of gross domestic product.

   Global GDP is projected to grow by 3.1% this year, and by just 2.2% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

   2022 November 22, Hanna Ziady, “If the world avoids a recession, it’ll have India and China to thank”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 08 May 2025

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   Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

   2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2020

   Or take Wikipedia. Supported by investments of time rather than money, it has left the old Encyclopedia Britannica in the dust – and taken the GDP down a few notches in the process.

   2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 5, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 104

2. abbreviationinitialismuncountableusuallybiochemistryInitialism of guanosine diphosphate, a nucleotide.