Most measures of economic performance used by government officials to inform their policies and decisions are based on gross-domestic-product figures. But concerns have long been raised that GDP-based ...

India rebases GDP to 2022–23 with methodological upgrades including double deflation and improved informal sector data. Here’s what it means for growth and policy.

The new series of data not only revises the base year for calculation purposes to 2022-23, it also incorporates several vital changes with an aim to give a more accurate measurement of the size of the ...

Diane Coyle’s new book, GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, is a timely contribution to discussions of modern economic performance. She argues that Gross Domestic Product increasingly ...

Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

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 ...

Paul Allin is a member of the UK National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Committee and he is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Officer for National Statistics. Views expressed in this ...

After more than a decade of questions and debates, India is set to finally get an updated gauge of its GDP, with the Ministry ...

Reliable macroeconomic statistics are fundamental to economic governance. Last year, the IMF, even while revising India’s GDP growth projections upwards, assigned a “C” rating to our National Accounts ...