COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020, and the coronavirus outbreak has since spread to over 192 countries and territories around the world, ...

This is highly speculative. Worse, it seems contradictory — things are terrible, yet not that bad. The terrible part is that Chinese GDP growth will be sharply negative for the first quarter, ...

In 2019, global travel and tourism contributed an impressive $8.9 trillion to the world’s GDP – a number so vast it’s hard to truly grasp but as a helping point, it looks like this written in full: $8 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover real estate, economics and cost of living. May 19, 2022, 03:23pm EDT This article is more than 3 years old. In many states ...

The global economy has been facing strong headwinds since the COVID-19 pandemic including the world’s richest countries by GDP. The major economic issues include high inflation, high interest rates, ...

How the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used in measuring our economic growth and whether alternative measures are also needed to provide a more comprehensive outlook of economic progress. This ...

How should we measure changes in an economy's standard of living, or compare living standards across countries? Typically, economists use GDP per capita as a proxy for a country's standard of living, ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Since World War II, most countries around the world have come to use gross domestic product, or GDP, as the core metric for prosperity. The GDP measures market output: the monetary value of all the ...