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Gross domestic product?

What is the difference between GDP - purchasing power parity vs official/market exchange rate? I'm writing a paper on the economy of France and don't know which type of GDP to use. Also how come the figures vary so much among sources? (CIA world fact book, World Bank, the Economist all say different things!) http://www.economist.com/countries/France/profile.cfm?folder=Profile-FactSheet http://devdata.worldbank.org/external/CPProfile.asp?PTYPE=CP&CCODE=FRA https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/fr.html

Public Comments

1. You want to use the most general GDP probably the first one. They vary because all measures of the GDP are estimates.