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Economic output

Goods and services produced, measured as GDP.

Depends on
3
Depended on by
1
Metrics
1

Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)

Dependencies around Economic outputhuman-health affects economic-output: Mechanism supportedeconomic-output affects ai-compute: Candidateeconomic-output enables capital-investment: Hypothesizedeconomic-output enables electricity-system: HypothesizedHuman health andlongevityEconomic outputAI computeCapital investmentElectricity system
  • Candidate
  • Hypothesized
  • Mechanism supported
  • Causally supported
  • Established relation

Systems that would feel a shortage

Downstream: what depends on it

weakest edge Mechanism supported
  1. Economic output affects Human health and longevity4 evidenceMechanism supported

    Human health and longevity depends on Economic output.

    Mechanism

    Higher output per person funds nutrition, sanitation, clinics, vaccines and education, and the relation between income and life expectancy across countries and time (the Preston curve) is one of the most documented in demography. The curve shifts upward over time, so part of the gain in longevity comes from knowledge and public health rather than income, and the effect flattens at high income.

    Evidence

    Status
    mechanism_supported
    Reviewer confidence
    0.80
    Stated strength
    0.50
    Lag
    365 to 3650 days
    Version
    curated_seed_v1
    Reviewed
    2026-09-07

    Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.

    evidence and analysis for this edge

Inputs it cannot do without

Upstream: what it depends on

weakest edge Candidate
  1. AI compute affects Economic output0 evidenceCandidate

    Economic output depends on AI compute.

    Mechanism

    Proposed: productivity effects of AI compute on output. No mechanism reviewed and no evidence attached.

    Evidence

    No evidence attached.

    Status
    candidate
    Reviewer confidence
    0.30
    Stated strength
    not stated
    Lag
    not stated
    Version
    curated_seed_v1
    Reviewed
    2026-09-07

    Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.

    evidence and analysis for this edge

  2. Capital investment enables Economic output2 evidenceHypothesized

    Economic output depends on Capital investment.

    Mechanism

    Stated, not yet evidenced here: the share of output reinvested in buildings, machines and infrastructure raises the capital stock and, with a lag, output per person (the accumulation term in growth accounting). Investment also responds to expected growth, so the direction runs both ways.

    Status
    hypothesized
    Reviewer confidence
    0.60
    Stated strength
    not stated
    Lag
    not stated
    Version
    curated_seed_v1
    Reviewed
    2026-09-07

    Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.

    evidence and analysis for this edge

  3. Electricity system enables Economic output2 evidenceHypothesized

    Economic output depends on Electricity system.

    Mechanism

    Stated, not yet evidenced here: electricity access allows productive uses (lighting, machinery, refrigeration, communications) that raise output per person. The catalog carries both series; no causal study is attached.

    Status
    hypothesized
    Reviewer confidence
    0.60
    Stated strength
    not stated
    Lag
    not stated
    Version
    curated_seed_v1
    Reviewed
    2026-09-07

    Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.

    evidence and analysis for this edge

Measured, from the catalog

Linked metrics

Current value for the metric's default geography. Values come from the metric pages, not from the graph.

Named on the edges that depend on it

Substitutes

No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.

Derived from curated edges

Bottleneck centrality

centrality_v1Derived
Score
0.50
Downstream entities
1
Direct dependents
1

Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.

Curated paths this entity is part of

Chains

Not part of a curated chain.

Names that resolve to this node

Aliases

  • GDP
  • economy
  • gross domestic product
  • output

slug economic-output, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC