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National income and product accounts

Alright kiddo, do you know what money is? Money is used to buy things like toys, food, clothes and many other things. But do you know how money is made?

Every year, a country produces a lot of things such as cars, books, clothes, and many other things. These things are called goods and services. People buy these goods and services by giving money to the people who made them.

National income and product accounts is just a fancy way of measuring all the goods and services produced by a country in a year. It is like counting all the toys you have in your toy box to see how many you have.

The people who count all the goods and services produced by a country are called economists. They use a special system to add up all the money made from selling goods and services.

This system has four different parts:

1. The first part is called Gross Domestic Product or GDP. It measures the total amount of goods and services made by a country in a year.

2. The second part is called Gross National Product or GNP. It measures the total amount of goods and services made by a country and its citizens around the world.

3. The third part is called Net Domestic Product or NDP. It measures the amount of money made from selling goods and services after taking away the cost of replacing worn-out equipment and machinery.

4. The fourth part is called National Income or NI. It measures the amount of money that people who work in a country make from their jobs.

So, national income and product accounts is just a way of counting all the toys a country has made in a year, and how much money people have made from making those toys.