Q.Define Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Product (GNP). How is GNP derived from GDP?
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country's domestic territory during a year, regardless of who owns the factors of production used to produce them — it is a territorial concept.
Gross National Product (GNP) is a residency-based concept: it values output/income earned by the normal residents of a country, whether they earn it at home or abroad. GNP is derived from GDP by adding Net Factor Income from Abroad (NFIA) — income that residents earn abroad (wages of citizens working overseas, profits/interest/dividends earned on investments abroad) minus income that non-residents earn within the domestic economy and repatriate:
For India, outflows to foreign investors operating within the country have generally been somewhat larger than the factor income Indian residents earn abroad, so India's NFIA has typically been a small negative number, making GNP marginally smaller than GDP in most recent years.
GDP = output within India's borders; GNP = GDP + Net Factor Income from Abroad, i.e. output/income attributable to India's own residents wherever earned.
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