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The 46 pages that link to Gross domestic product, each with the reason it gives.

• Global value chainCompared with: GDP measures territorial production, not the full sequence of value contributions in a product.

• Economic growthRelated: GDP is the most common measure of the size of an economy’s output.

• Purchasing power parityRelated: Converting GDP at purchasing power parity compares real economic output across countries.

• Business cycleRelated: Real GDP is a central measure of economy-wide output across expansions and contractions.

• Development economicsRelated: GDP measures economic output, but not how evenly income or well-being is shared.

• Economic historyRelated: Historical GDP estimates help track changes in economic output and living standards.

• Social welfare functionCompared with: GDP totals production but does not by itself rank outcomes by distribution or individual well-being.

• Labor productivityRelated: National productivity estimates often divide real GDP by hours worked.

• Aggregate DemandRelated: The spending approach to GDP uses the same components as aggregate demand.

• DegrowthCompared with: Degrowth challenges its use as the primary measure of social progress.

• MeasurementBroader topic: Its reported value depends on standardized definitions, data collection, and estimation methods.

• Economic developmentCompared with: GDP measures production, but omits many dimensions of well-being and institutional change.

• ProductivityCompared with: GDP measures total economic output, whereas productivity relates output to inputs.

• Capability approachCompared with: The approach challenges GDP as a stand-in for people’s actual opportunities.

• Human Development IndexCompared with: The HDI was designed to challenge GDP as a sufficient measure of development.

• Ecological economicsCompared with: It measures market production but does not directly account for ecological depletion or distribution.

• Domestic laborCompared with: GDP generally omits unpaid household services, making much domestic labor invisible in standard output measures.

• Recession (economics)Related: Real GDP is a common measure of whether economic output is contracting.

• Economic policyRelated: GDP growth is a central measure used to assess economic performance.

• Green growthRelated: Green growth retains GDP expansion as an objective, while seeking to reduce its environmental costs.

• MacroeconomicsRelated: It measures aggregate production and anchors comparisons of economic size and growth.

• National accountsRelated: It is the central aggregate that reconciles production, income, and expenditure accounts.

• Reproductive laborCompared with: GDP generally excludes unpaid household services, leaving much reproductive labor outside its headline totals.

• Gross National HappinessCompared with: It measures production, while Gross National Happiness also assesses social and environmental conditions.

• National income accountingBroader topic: GDP is the central measure of domestic production in the accounts.

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentCompared with: OECD well-being work highlights what GDP omits from assessments of social progress.

• Service economyRelated: Service output counts toward GDP, though much of it is difficult to measure.

• Economic forecastingRelated: GDP growth is a central target for forecasts of economic activity.

• Public debt of the United StatesRelated: Debt-to-GDP compares federal debt with the scale of the U.S. economy.

• Feminist EconomicsCompared with: GDP's production boundary omits much unpaid household labor and care.

• Simon KuznetsRelated: Kuznets’s national-income work helped establish the statistical foundations later used to measure GDP.

• Balance of tradeCompared with: GDP measures domestic production, whereas the trade balance measures net cross-border sales.

• Economy of the United StatesRelated: It summarizes the scale of U.S. production, though it does not measure every aspect of well-being.

• Happiness economicsCompared with: GDP tracks production, while happiness economics asks whether that production improves lived well-being.

• Production (economics)Related: GDP records the market value of production within a national boundary.

• Statistics (numerical data)Broader topic: It is a widely used economic statistic whose scope shapes what it measures.

• Scientific Outlook on DevelopmentCompared with: The principle challenged reliance on GDP growth as the sole measure of development.

• Stock market indexCompared with: GDP measures economic output, while stock indexes measure selected share prices or returns.

• Development geographyRelated: GDP is a common measure of economic development, though it misses distribution and well-being.

• Economy of ThailandNarrower topic: Thailand’s GDP tracks total output but does not show how income is distributed.

• Development studiesCompared with: It is a familiar growth measure that misses distribution and many dimensions of well-being.

• Economy of the United KingdomRelated: GDP is the main measure used to track the size and growth of UK output.

• AffluenzaCompared with: Economic growth can rise without capturing the well-being concerns affluenza highlights.

• Angus DeatonCompared with: Deaton argued that GDP growth alone cannot establish whether ordinary people’s lives improve.

• Economic depressionRelated: Sustained declines in real GDP are one sign of a broad contraction in production.

• Global developmentCompared with: GDP measures economic production, not the full range of social conditions development seeks to improve.