50 Examples of Economic Outcomes

John Spacey, April 16, 2023

An economic outcome is the financial result of a policy, program, effort, investment, social change or historical event. This can be used to analyze and critique the results of changes that have already occurred. Economic outcomes can also be used as goals and targets for programs, policies, services and initiatives of change. The following are common economic outcomes.

Access to capital	Access to credit
Balance of payments	Bankruptcies
Business investment rates	Consumer confidence
Consumer spending	Cost of living
Costs	Credit conditions
Debt levels	Debt-to-GDP
Debt-to-income ratio	Direct foreign investment
Economic growth	Educational attainment
Employment and unemployment rate	Exchange rates
Financial security	Foreclosures
GDP	Home ownership rates
Housing cost burden	Income
Income distribution	Income gap
Inflation or deflation	Investment returns
Job security	Labor force participation rate
Market prices	Net worth
Occupational status	Poverty
Price levels	Productivity rates – value produced in an hour of work
Rates of insurance coverage	Recessions
Retirement savings	Revenue
Savings rates	Small business failure rate
Social mobility	Standard of living
Trade balance	Underemployment rate
Wage gap	Wage growth
Wages	Wealth

Economic outcomes such as income levels are closely tied to social outcomes. For example, poverty creates a large number of issues in areas such as food insecurity, access to housing and access to education.