Exports, which add to domestic production, could fall if the trade war continues and more countries respond with tariffs on ...

GDP only counts goods produced within the borders of a country, eschewing foreign production from even domestic companies. There’s actually a separate measurement designed to calculate the ...

The disbanding of committees that consulted on government data — and comments from a senior official about changing how GDP ...

Real GDP is calculated using a GDP price deflator, which is the difference in prices between the current year and the base year. For example, if prices rose by 5% since the base year, then the ...

Between the Trump administration wanting to change how GDP is calculated and DOGE accessing sensitive government information, ...

WSJ's Carter McCall explains how GDP is calculated and how the coronavirus is impacting the equation. Photo Illustration: Jacob Reynolds/WSJ News moves fast, and there's not always time to ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic ...

“There’s no need to reinvent the wheel here; we already have the statistics to calculate GDP minus government spending,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at tax and consulting firm RSM US.

A country's debt-to-GDP ratio is a metric that expresses how leveraged a country is by comparing its public debt to its annual economic output. Just like people and businesses, countries often ...