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Statistical Insights: What does GDP per capita tell us about households’ material well-being?

Although GDP per capita is often used as a broad measure of average living standards, high levels of GDP per capita do not necessarily mean high levels of household disposable income, a key measure of average material well-being of people.

Measuring GDP in a digitalised economy

Statistics Working Paper N. 73, 2016/7 - Recent years have seen a rapid emergence of new disruptive technologies with new forms of intermediation, service provision and consumption, with digitalisation being a common characteristic. These include new platforms that facilitate Peer-to-Peer transactions, such as AirBnB and Uber, new activities such as crowd sourcing,...

Produit intérieur brut (PIB) et autres statistiques des comptes nationaux annuels de l'OCDE

Vous recherchez le PIB ? Ou le PIB par tête, l'investissement, le revenu national disponible, la consommation des ménages, les dépenses des administrations publiques, la dette des administrations publiques, le déficit publique ? Consultez les comptes nationaux annuels de l'OCDE.

The drivers of differences between growth in GDP and household adjusted disposable income in OECD countries

Statistics Working Paper N. 71, 2016/6 - Growth in household income has evolved differently from gross domestic product (GDP) in most OECD countries over the last eighteen years. Using the wealth of information available in the System of National Accounts, this paper provides an assessment of what may be driving this gap

Statistical Insights: Government assets matter too, not just debt

In analysing the sustainability of government finances, the focus tends to be on gross government debt as a percentage of GDP. However, as gross debt does not take into account the asset side of government balance sheets, this measure only tells part of the story. Assets may generate income or be sold in order to redeem part of gross debt, and are therefore very relevant in assessing the financial health of government as well.

Revisions of quarterly GDP in selected OECD countries

The data analyses the size of revisions for the first estimates of seasonally adjusted, quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year GDP volume growth rates, as published in successive issues of the OECD Main Economic Indicators database and collected in the Revisions Analysis Dataset – Infra-annual Indicators online dataset.

International cooperation on macro-economic statistics - Different portals, same data

From now on, GDP and some related indicators will be identical across the respective databases of several international organisations.

Revisions of quarterly GDP in selected OECD countries - OECD Statistics Brief N. 22

This Statistics Brief analyses revisions to quarterly GDP growth rates for 18 OECD countries from the fourth quarter of 1994 to the fourth quarter of 20132. It looks at the magnitude of the revisions to economic growth and its underlying expenditure components.

Eurostat-OECD Compilation guide on land estimations

Comparing profit shares in value-added in four OECD countries: Towards more harmonised national accounts

Statistics Working Paper N. 61, 2015/3 - This article gives methodological guidance on how best to compare the share of profits in value-added across countries using national accounts. The four countries covered are France, Germany, Italy and the United States.