Understand macroeconomics. The GDP as a measure of a country's economic health, the basics of economic analysis, and even a little about full employment and unemployment. [13:42]

Podcast episode 13 [9:35] from Economic Lowdown series teaches about Gross Domestic Product, what it is and how it's measured to assess economic growth.

In this video [11:58], we break down GDP into its components to better understand what's counted in GDP and what's not counted.

When using the expenditures approach to calculating GDP the components are consumption, investment, government spending, exports, and imports. In this video [4:58] we explore these components in more detail.

A video [5:00] explaining how to use the income approach to calculate the gross domestic product.

Sal Khan looks at how different types of expenditures would be accounted for in GDP. [5:57]