The value of all goods and services produced in an economy or a sector minus the value of inputs used up in producing them; it measures output from the supply side, and GDP equals GVA at basic prices plus product taxes minus product subsidies.
Deep-dive lesson:National Income, Growth and the Budget. This page is a quick reference that connects the term across subjects; read the lesson for the full treatment.
Every firm, farm and office buys inputs from others and adds something of its own before selling. A baker buys flour, fuel and packaging and sells bread; the difference between the value of the bread and the cost of the inputs is the value the bakery adds. Adding up these differences across all producers avoids counting the flour twice, once when the miller sells it and again inside the bread. That sum is gross value added.
Before 2015, India's national accounts reported GDP at factor cost as the main measure of sectoral output. With the revision to the 2011–12 base year, the Central Statistics Office moved to the international System of National Accounts 2008 practice of reporting GVA at basic prices for sectors and GDP at market prices for the whole economy. The change brought Indian data in line with global norms, but it also prompted debate about methods, especially the use of the MCA-21 corporate database for estimating manufacturing output. This page focuses on GVA as a tool for reading which parts of the economy are growing, a perspective that complements the broader GDP entry.
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