As part of the ongoing exercise to update the GDP base year, the government will use several more datasets on the expenditure side to improve the sources of data and enable more accurate estimation of ...

Note: The quarter-on-quarter growth rate refers to the seasonally adjusted growth rate over the previous quarter. Refer to NBS database (http://data.stats.gov.cn) for ...

I sometimes read assertions that the statistical methods used by the Commerce Department to calculate GDP no longer properly capture economic output because they don’t, for example, properly account ...

Note: some of the data in the table, such as GDP total amount and composition, are not equal to the sum of various industries (sectors) due to rounding errors and have not been mechanically adjusted.

Finance ministry has dismissed criticism of inflated GDP figures, stating that it followed consistent practices and that international agencies have revised their forecasts upwards after seeing ...