If a government is interested in knowing the total income of its citizens (including remittances, or money earned in a foreign country and sent back home), it should look at the gross domestic product (gdp) gross national product (gnp) economic cycle

If a government is interested in knowing the total income of its citizens (including remittances, or money earned in a foreign country and sent backhome), it should look at the Gross National Product (GNP) economic cycle. Both GDP and GNP are tools in measuring the economic output of a country for a particular period. The difference is that GDP focuses solely on what happens inside the country. GNP takes into account the foreign sources.