Comparison of Gross Domestic Product Forecasts before and after the Covid-19

Somayeh  Afshari; Soheila  Damiri

doi:10.18502/mshsj.v6i3.8033

Somayeh Afshari Ph.D. student of Health Economics, Depatment of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Soheila Damiri Ph.D. student of Health Economics, Depatment of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/mshsj.v6i3.8033

Keywords: Covid-19, Gross Domestic Product, Economic growth

Abstract

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) publish annual reports on the world economic outlook. This study compared the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of different countries by these 2 institutions, before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. The countries were selected from the 6 regions of Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Western Ocean. In order to be able to compare these countries, WB reports were selected as a model and then the corresponding economic data were extracted from the IMF.