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GNP and GDP, Converted at Market Exchange Rates and at Purchasing Power Parity, 1994-1995

Gross National Product is another measure of the output of an economy that is an alternate to Gross Domestic Product. The concepts are very closely related. The distinction is that GDP is the output which is actually produced in the country whereas GNP is the output produced by the resources owned by the citizens (nationals) of a country regardless of where the production takes place. For an illustration consider the Repubic of Ireland. The GDP of the Republic of Ireland is the value of final goods and services produced within the geographic territory of the Republic, but the GNP of the Republic is the value of final goods and services produced by the labor, capital and other resources owned by the citizens or corporations of the Republic. Thus the GNP would include the wages and salaries of citizens of the Republic working in the U.K. and elsewhere less the wages and salaries of foreign nationals working in the Republic.

 GDPGNPReal GNP
  1994 1995 1996 1994 1995 1996 1994 1995
Country bill$94 bill$95 bill$95 bill$94 bill$95 bill$96 bill$90 bill$90
Algeria 37 38 39          
Argentina 278 285 271          
Australia 324 332 342 332 352 373 326 339
Austria 221 226 231 161 166 172 172 176
Bangladesh 27 28 29          
Belgium 262 268 269 208 214 222 204 208
Brazil 610 626 657          
Bulgaria 37 38 38          
Canada 517 530 542 594 622 645 598 612
Chile 53 55 59          
China 2461 2523 2759          
Colombia 71 73 76          
Congo(Kin) 5 5 5          
Croatia 19 20 20          
Cuba 22 23 23          
Czech Rep 94 96 101       24 26
Denmark 173 178 170 106 112 118 139 142
Egypt 44 45 46          
El Salvador 9 9 10          
Ethiopia 5 5 5          
Finland 121 124 119 83 92 97 125 131
France 1452 1488 1521 1116 1157 1199 1234 1260
Germany 2079 2131 2172 1608 1675 1736 1750 1781
Ghana 6 6 6          
Greece 87 89 91 121 127 134 88 90
Hungary 64 65 66       31 32
India 299 307 326          
Indonesia 172 177 189          
Iran 158 162 158          
Iraq NA NA NA          
Ireland NA NA NA 57 62 69 54 61
Israel 83 85 91          
Italy 1025 1050 1082 1069 1115 1148 1124 1157
Japan 4981 5106 5153 2652 2752 2925 3144 3191
Kenya 7 7 8          
Korea, N 21 22 21          
Korea, S 380 390 425 507 565 619 334 364
Kuwait 28 28 30          
Luxembourg NA NA NA 12 13 14 13 13
Malaysia 71 73 81      
Mexico 254 261 237 728 698 751 302 283
Morocco 33 34 32      
Netherlands 373 382 391 289 307 325 308 315
New Zealand       58 61 64 48 50
Nigeria 94 96 95          
Norway 121 124 128 95 99 107 133 138
Pakistan 57 59 61          
Peru 51 53 57          
Philippines 71 73 77          
Poland 188 193 209       61 66
Portugal 98 100 103 119 124 130 71 72
Romania 91 93 99        
Russia 93 95 76          
Saudi Arabia 121 124 128          
Serbia-Montenegro NA NA 21          
Slovakia 18 19 19          
Slovenia 21 22 23          
South Africa 124 127 131          
Spain 525 538 554 538 561 587 515 529
Sri Lanka 12 12 13          
Sweden 207 212 219 155 166 171 226 235
Switzerland 302 309 316 170 177 181 226 228
Syria 45 46 50        
Taiwan 243 249 264          
Tanzania 4 4 4          
Thailand 147 151 163          
Turkey 153 157 167 320 350 383 165 176
United Kingdom 1058 1084 1110 1032 1047 1096 1013 1040
United States 6932 7106 7247 6716 7030 7388 6005 6147
Venezuela 71 73 75          

Last Updated on 10/14/99
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