Glossary:Gross national income (GNI)

From Statistics Explained

Gross national income, abbreviated as GNI, is the sum of incomes of residents of an economy in a given period. It is equal to GDP minus primary income payable by resident units to non-resident units, plus primary income receivable from the rest of the world.

It is conceptually identical to gross national product (GNP, the concept in ESA 79), though GNP was calculated differently in ESA 79.

Sources

• United Nations: System of National Accounts (SNA) 2008, § 2.143.-2.144, United Nations, New York, 2009
• Eurostat: European System of Accounts - ESA 1995, §§ 8.94, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1996

Related concepts

• Allocation of primary income account

Further Eurostat information

• European system of accounts (ESA 1995)
• Monitoring GNI for own resource purposes