No, borrowing and repayment are not included in GDP.<p>But there are some almost similarly absurd situations. If you paint your garden fence and your neighbor plants some potatoes, that doesn&#x27;t count into GDP. However, if you buy your neighbors potatoes, and she pays you to paint her fence, those exchanges become relevant (ignoring the fact that small stuff like this is hard to measure).<p>This is more relevant than one might think. Considering one of the largest economic developments in the last half century was the integration of women into the labour force, growth statistics would look quite different if were to assign a fair value to unpaid housework they used to do.