There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final... Can we just change how we measure GDP? There's one ...

The headline GDP number conceals economic momentum by blending leading and lagging sectors. Read how certain economic metrics ...

In May, the United Nations (UN) unveiled the first global blueprint for measuring progress beyond GDP. It consists of a ...

The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen. Gross domestic product (GDP) was never designed to be a measure of societal ...

The world seems ready to move beyond gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of economic growth, and towards metrics that are more representative of sustainability and people’s well-being. United ...

For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used as a benchmark of society’s progress. Yet, as the GDP figures keep ticking up, so too does a profound disenchantment with the political and ...

Figures for the level and rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) are quoted ubiquitously, including in this magazine. They are widely agreed to tell us something of importance. But there is a ...

GDP does not need to be redefined for the AI age. The harder measurement problem is how price indexes account for rapidly changing quality and falling prices.

There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final transactions, so all the goods or services bought and ...