A nation's population was 250 million last year and is 255 million this year. If its real GDP was $8.5 trillion last year and is $8.8 trillion this year, what is its growth rate of real GDP per person?
What will be an ideal response?
Last year real GDP per person equaled ($8.5 trillion)/(250 million) = $34,000 per person. This year, real GDP per person is $34,510 per person. Thus the growth in real GDP per person equals × 100 = 1.5 percent.
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