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GAO put a number on the cooking, cleaning and caring Americans do for free: at least $5.6 trillion in 2024, about a fifth of GDP, and none of it is in GDP.
GAO's September 17 report estimates the national market value of unpaid household work — domestic tasks plus caregiving — at $5.6 to $6.0 trillion in 2024, 'equivalent to at least 19.2 to 20.2 percent of 2024 GDP'. Domestic tasks account for $4.3–4.4 trillion of that; caregiving for $1.1–1.4 trillion. On a typical day 87.3 percent of people did some of it, averaging about 3.72 hours. Women were 53.9 percent of the people doing it while being 51.2 percent of the population; women and married people spent more time on child care than men and unmarried people, while time spent caring for adults was similar across both splits. The estimate excludes secondary child care — watching a child while doing something else — so GAO says the real figure is higher. None of it appears in GDP, because GDP counts market transactions.
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