How to Use gross national product in a Sentence

gross national product

noun
  • Is fear our gross national product?
    — Chloe Shrager, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The limit gets adjusted every year, based on the change in gross national product.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Economic loss could rise to $7 billion, more than half of the country’s gross national product.
    — Andrea Sachs, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Economic loss could rise to $7 billion, more than half of the country's gross national product.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But if history is any guide, expanding gross national product is also unlikely to be a panacea.
    — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The economy has been in recession for 12 years; gross national product has fallen by 15% in that time.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In addition, military spending as a percentage of gross national product is also in a decline.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
  • Some economists list the net worth of these corporations as being more than the gross national product of many European nations.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Overall, if the root causes of health issues like obesity were addressed, then less of our gross national product would be spent on the diseases that these preconditions cause.
    — Shakeel Ahmed, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • About 40 percent of Fiji's gross national product (GNP) comes from the tourism industry.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The heavyweights might demand to use oxygen between rounds, and Alvarez might refuse to fight unless he is made king of Mexico, with a percentage of the country’s gross national product.
    — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
  • By 1968, Japan was rich, second only to the United States in gross national product, and one of the most polluted countries on earth.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The authors looked at many environmental and historical factors (and adjusted for countries' per-capita gross national product, since many of these factors are also tied to the wealth of a country).
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2011
  • The new fiscal plan comes as island officials estimate its gross national product will contract deeply in the year ending in June, officials told reporters today in San Juan.
    — Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The administration minimizes the overall budgetary effect of its spending plans by projecting average growth in gross national product at 3% annually over the next decade.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In search of better tools to manage the economy, the federal government commissioned economists in the 1930s to calculate gross national product.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • First, do conventional measures of growth, such as the change in a country’s gross national product, omit key aspects of collective social welfare, such as environmental quality and income inequality?
    — Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The country’s hotels, resorts, museums, restaurants, galleries and countless other destinations are estimated to produce more than 15 percent of the gross national product.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 4 June 2019
  • The conflict was costly, about $32 billion, or about half of that era’s gross national product, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
    — USA Today, 22 May 2020
  • At the same time, the Dominican Republic’s gross national product is 3% to 5% annually, driven in considerable measure by its tourism industry.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The gas subsidies, which amount to nearly 2 percent of the country’s gross national product, are starving other sectors of the economy, according to Andrés Albuja, an economic analyst.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2022
  • Indeed, the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness estimates corruption eats away 2 to 10 percent of gross national product and reduces foreign investment by 5 percent a year.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2018

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