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Nominal GDP Calculation Formula

To calculate an economy's total output, the diverse range of goods and services must be expressed in a common unit to allow for aggregation. This is achieved by converting physical quantities into monetary, or nominal, terms. Statisticians use 'current prices'—the market prices at which items are sold during the period of measurement—for this conversion. For each good or service (ii), its quantity (qiq_i) is multiplied by its current price (pip_i). The sum of these values for all goods and services constitutes the Nominal GDP. An illustrative breakdown is:

(price of a yoga lesson)×(number of yoga lessons)+(price of a book)×(number of books)++(price)×(quantity) for all other goods and services\begin{align*} &\text{(price of a yoga lesson)} \times \text{(number of yoga lessons)} \\ &+ \text{(price of a book)} \times \text{(number of books)} + \dots \\ &+ \text{(price)} \times \text{(quantity)} \text{ for all other goods and services} \end{align*}

The general formula is:

nominal GDP=ipiqi\text{nominal GDP} = \sum_{i}p_iq_i

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