I doubt the seriousness of any metric that is called "gross domestic X" without a clear reason, just to piggyback on the well-defined notion of GDP.

Like, what is the net version of this "GDH" thing? One could in principle calculate net domestic product. What is its non-domestic version? We do always calculate gross national product.

If it needs marketing gimmicks like being named something nonsensical but familiar, it's probably not a good metric.

Looks like "wellbeing" may be the name of the game in the race to replace GDP: https://www.cambridge.org/nl/academic/subjects/economics/economic-development-and-growth/replacing-gdp-2030-towards-common-language-well-being-and-sustainability-community

Replacing GDP by 2030 | Economic development and growth

How did Gross domestic product (GDP) become the world’s most influential indicator? Why does it still remain the primary measure of societal progress despite being widely criticised for not considering well-being or sustainability? Why have the many beyond-GDP alternatives not managed to effectively…

Can you add a definition for your new metric?

@RobertCousineau Healthspan alone is not super well-defined today, so I would interpret GDH as the population aggregate of the amount of time each person spends in good health. (Something like Time * Quality, perhaps.) However, as a universal standardized measurement, it could fall into the usual overly-utilitarian pitfalls, which could have significant downsides, both easily foreseeable and less so.

Further reading at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6136295/

> "one common definition is that healthspan is the period of life spent in good health, free from the chronic diseases and disabilities of aging"

@cloudprism sounds good, the calculation was what I was looking for :) Do you have a plan for measuring relevance/attention/importance?

@RobertCousineau Something like a downtrend in references to GDP correlated to an uptrend in references to GDH across news articles, professional presentations, and academic publications. (Assuming we still have those in 2050.)