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1. Consumption or C is defined as personal consumption by consumers or spending done by consumers :
It will include the following:
Goods , Durable or Non-durable and Services
a) Consumers bought $2 billion dollars worth of goods and services , 20% of which were produced and initially sold in 2016 = 0.8*2 = 1.6 Billion $
b) Foreigners with working visas in Symposia lived in foreign-only households that bought $200 million worth of locally made goods and services in 2017.
C = 1.6 + 0.2 = 1.8 Billion $
2.
Investment of Symposia will include Gross private domestic investment i.e spending by households and firms in purchasing new capital , plant , equipment , inventory and new residential structures .
i.e
Fixed Investment
Non residential
Structures
Equipment and Software
Residential
Change in private inventories etc
It will include : (I)
a) Businesses invested $100 million dollars in new capital (i.e. machinery) stock in 2017= $100 Million = 0.1 Million $
b) Businesses also bought $200 million dollars worth of company stocks in 2017 = $ 200 Million = 0.2 Million $
Government Spending and Investment will include (G) :
a ) *The government of Symposia bought $250 million worth of new ambulances for government run hospitals in 2017. = 0.250 Billion $
3.
GDP = C + I + G + NX
where C = Personal Consumption
I = Private Investment
G = Government Spending
NX = Exports- Imports
GDP = 1.8 + 0.1 + 0.2 + 0.25 + 0.1 = 2.45 Billion $