Statistics glossary

The concepts that begin with the selected letter along with their definition are listed below. Click "Further information" to be directed to the page where detailed information about the concept is located. You can use the links above if you want to change the start letter.

G

  • GDP

    See Gross Domestic Product

  • GDP at market prices

    Acronym for Gross Domestic Product at market prices.

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  • General Government

    institutional agents that are non-market producers and financed by compulsory payments, such as taxes, made by entities belonging to other sectors. It also includes all institutional units principally engaged in the redistribution of national income and wealth, such as social security institutions. However, entities which are controlled by governments may still be classified in the non-financial corporations sector or the financial sector. Here, the “market producer” criterion applies. The general government sector includes non-market public institutional units only.

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  • GG

    See General Government

  • GNP

    See Gross national product

  • Gold pesetas

    An accounting unit used in customs valuations and, consequently, in Spain’s external statistics, between 1922 and 1959. Its purpose was to obtain a more realistic valuation of foreign transactions.

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  • Gross Domestic Product

    Value of the total production of goods and services in the economy, excluding intermediate consumption and including net taxes on production and imports.

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  • Gross national product

    Value of the final goods and services produced by the production factors of an economic territory within a period of time, regardless of whether these factors are inside or outside that territory.

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  • Gross operating profit (GOP)

    Surplus generated by operating activities after compensating the labour factor.

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  • Gross operating surplus

    Surplus (or deficit) resulting from deducting from the value of production activities the uses for intermediate consumption, employee compensation, and taxes less subsidies on production, and before considering both income and payments for rents arising from lending and leasing operations as well as those generated by the ownership of financial and non-produced assets.

  • Gross value added (GVA)

    Gross value added is the difference between production and intermediate consumption.

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