Motivation: Consistency with the 2018 NIPA comprehensive update and with other USD-valued Moody's Analytics estimates (pending).

Response: We have advanced the currency reference year from 2009 to 2012.

Properties

• Measurement: Billions of constant year-2012 dollars (Bil. 2012 USD)
• Adjustment: Seasonally adjusted at annualized rate (SAAR)
• Periodicity: Quarterly
• Start date: Varies by country, as early as 1947
• Geo coverage:
• 205 individual countries
• "Developed Economies" per UN definitions
• "Developing Economies" defined as remainder
• Five regional composites per UN definitions
• Global total

The series reside in the historical catalog (Cross-Country Datasets » National Accounts » Gross Domestic Product) and include, for example:

• RWGDPUSD$AQ.IWRLD = Gross domestic product, (Bil. 2012 USD) - for World
• RWGDPUSD$AQ.IDEVC = for Developing Economies
• RWGDPUSD$AQ.IAMRI = for Americas
• RWGDPUSD$AQ.IAND  = for Andorra

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" mode that accepts a mnemonic.