Belgium - GDP (constant 2010 US$)

The latest value for GDP (constant 2010 US$) in Belgium was 466,837,000,000 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 494,843,000,000 in 2019 and 107,410,000,000 in 1960.

Definition: GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars. Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using 2010 official exchange rates. For a few countries where the official exchange rate does not reflect the rate effectively applied to actual foreign exchange transactions, an alternative conversion factor is used.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

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Year Value
1960 107,410,000,000
1961 112,757,000,000
1962 118,634,000,000
1963 123,797,000,000
1964 132,409,000,000
1965 137,123,000,000
1966 141,451,000,000
1967 146,922,000,000
1968 153,084,000,000
1969 163,234,000,000
1970 172,347,000,000
1971 179,216,000,000
1972 188,707,000,000
1973 200,749,000,000
1974 209,914,000,000
1975 205,787,000,000
1976 217,420,000,000
1977 218,781,000,000
1978 224,999,000,000
1979 230,266,000,000
1980 240,499,000,000
1981 239,828,000,000
1982 241,255,000,000
1983 242,007,000,000
1984 247,976,000,000
1985 252,072,000,000
1986 256,667,000,000
1987 262,587,000,000
1988 274,990,000,000
1989 284,529,000,000
1990 293,456,000,000
1991 298,835,000,000
1992 303,410,000,000
1993 300,491,000,000
1994 310,188,000,000
1995 317,585,000,000
1996 321,782,000,000
1997 333,989,000,000
1998 340,541,000,000
1999 352,606,000,000
2000 365,711,000,000
2001 369,733,000,000
2002 376,044,000,000
2003 379,947,000,000
2004 393,515,000,000
2005 402,652,000,000
2006 412,929,000,000
2007 428,112,000,000
2008 430,025,000,000
2009 421,336,000,000
2010 433,404,000,000
2011 440,748,000,000
2012 444,006,000,000
2013 446,045,000,000
2014 453,086,000,000
2015 462,336,000,000
2016 468,192,000,000
2017 475,775,000,000
2018 484,430,000,000
2019 494,843,000,000
2020 466,837,000,000

Development Relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions.

Limitations and Exceptions: Each industry's contribution to growth in the economy's output is measured by growth in the industry's value added. In principle, value added in constant prices can be estimated by measuring the quantity of goods and services produced in a period, valuing them at an agreed set of base year prices, and subtracting the cost of intermediate inputs, also in constant prices. This double-deflation method requires detailed information on the structure of prices of inputs and outputs. In many industries, however, value added is extrapolated from the base year using single volume indexes of outputs or, less commonly, inputs. Particularly in the services industries, including most of government, value added in constant prices is often imputed from labor inputs, such as real wages or number of employees. In the absence of well defined measures of output, measuring the growth of services remains difficult. Moreover, technical progress can lead to improvements in production processes and in the quality of goods and services that, if not properly accounted for, can distort measures of value added and thus of growth. When inputs are used to estimate output, as for nonmarket services, unmeasured technical progress leads to underestimates of the volume of output. Similarly, unmeasured improvements in quality lead to underestimates of the value of output and value added. The result can be underestimates of growth and productivity improvement and overestimates of inflation. Informal economic activities pose a particular measurement problem, especially in developing countries, where much economic activity is unrecorded. A complete picture of the economy requires estimating household outputs produced for home use, sales in informal markets, barter exchanges, and illicit or deliberately unreported activities. The consistency and completeness of such estimates depend on the skill and methods of the compiling statisticians. Rebasing of national accounts can alter the measured growth rate of an economy and lead to breaks in series that affect the consistency of data over time. When countries rebase their national accounts, they update the weights assigned to various components to better reflect current patterns of production or uses of output. The new base year should represent normal operation of the economy - it should be a year without major shocks or distortions. Some developing countries have not rebased their national accounts for many years. Using an old base year can be misleading because implicit price and volume weights become progressively less relevant and useful. To obtain comparable series of constant price data for computing aggregates, the World Bank rescales GDP and value added by industrial origin to a common reference year. Because rescaling changes the implicit weights used in forming regional and income group aggregates, aggregate growth rates are not comparable with those from earlier editions with different base years. Rescaling may result in a discrepancy between the rescaled GDP and the sum of the rescaled components. To avoid distortions in the growth rates, the discrepancy is left unallocated. As a result, the weighted average of the growth rates of the components generally does not equal the GDP growth rate.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) represents the sum of value added by all its producers. Value added is the value of the gross output of producers less the value of intermediate goods and services consumed in production, before accounting for consumption of fixed capital in production. The United Nations System of National Accounts calls for value added to be valued at either basic prices (excluding net taxes on products) or producer prices (including net taxes on products paid by producers but excluding sales or value added taxes). Both valuations exclude transport charges that are invoiced separately by producers. Total GDP is measured at purchaser prices. Value added by industry is normally measured at basic prices. When value added is measured at producer prices. Growth rates of GDP and its components are calculated using the least squares method and constant price data in the local currency. Constant price U.S. dollar series are used to calculate regional and income group growth rates. Local currency series are converted to constant U.S. dollars using an exchange rate in the common reference year.

Aggregation method: Gap-filled total

Base Period: 2010

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts