Britain, Italy include drugs and sex in GDP

The U.K.'s Office of National Statistics announced Thursday that paying for drugs and sex adds about £10 billion ($16.7 billion) a year to the economy. The British government is now including prostitution and narcotics sales in its official Gross Domestic Product (GDP) statistic. That's the oft-cited measure of how much a country's economy grows or contracts.

https://money.cnn.com/2014/05/29/news/economy/uk-italy-prostitution-gdp/#:~:text=The%20U.K.'s%20Office%20of,Domestic%20Product%20(GDP)%20statistic


now that Britain is being surpassed economically by former colonies...