Chain-weighted GDP Calculator

Real GDP Calculator

Calculating Real GDP in economics can be tedious, why not let this calculator do it for you?

The calculator calculates both Real GDP, chain-weighted GDP, the GDP deflator and inflation.

How to use

Simply type in your values and years from your exercise into the first table, the spreadsheet will update GDP accordingly.

Right click to add columns and rows (two finger press on mac, press and hold on phone).

Max decimals:

	Price of mangoes	Quantity of mangoes	Price of tomatoes	Quantity of tomatoes
2016	3	10	2	8
2017	4	12	3	15
2018	6	12	4	16
2019	5	10	3	14
2020	8	8	5	20

	Price of mangoes	Quantity of mangoes	Price of tomatoes	Quantity of tomatoes

the below table measures real GDP for every year.

columns is the real GDP for the given year, measured with the rows year as the base year.

	GDP for each year
	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020

	Real GDP deflator	Real GDP Inflation	Chain-weighted GDP	Chain-weighted gdp deflator	Chain-weighted gdp inflation
2016	100		46	100
2017	141	41	66	141	41
2018	200	42	68	200	42
2019	159	-21	58	159	-21
2020	256	61	63	260	64

	Real GDP deflator	Real GDP Inflation	Chain-weighted GDP	Chain-weighted gdp deflator	Chain-weighted gdp inflation

This website is still a work in progress and breaks easily. To avoid errors:

make sure to always write 'price' first then 'quantity', the other order will give you a wrong answer.
remove only one row at a time

Feel free to send any suggestions, errors and feedback to mathiaskbonde@gmail.com