Why Do Economies Grow or Shrink?

Economic growth is like a pie that gets bigger when more people make more stuff. Imagine your family grows, you need more food, more toys, and more space in the house. A country works the same way: if it makes more things or has better ways of doing things, its economy grows. If not, the pie gets smaller, that's economic shrinkage.

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When a town opens up a new bakery, more people get jobs and buy more bread, the economy grows.
If many people in your country lose their jobs at once, it becomes harder for them to buy things, the economy shrinks.
A city that builds more roads can move goods faster, that's one way economies grow.

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