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The U.S. current-account deficit resulting from international economic transactions widened by $33.4 billion, or 15.7 percent, to $246.0 billion in the second quarter of 2026, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The…
The U.S. goods and services trade deficit increased in July 2026 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit increased from $71.2 billion in June (revised) to $88.6 billion in July, as imports increased and export…
Personal income increased $115.1 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in July, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Disposable personal income (DPI)-personal income less personal current taxes-increased $125.…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026 (April, May, and June), according to the second estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). In the first quarter, real GDP in…
Personal income increased $54.9 billion (0.2 percent at a monthly rate) in June, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Disposable personal income (DPI)-personal income less personal current taxes-increased $48.3…
The U.S. direct investment abroad position, or cumulative level of investment, increased $438.1 billion to $7.14 trillion at the end of 2025, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The increase was led by a $350.2 bill…
Majority-owned U.S. affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises employed 8.57 million workers in the United States in 2024, a 0.2 percent increase from 8.56 million workers in 2023, according to statistics on U.S. affiliate operations and finances release…
Personal income increased $181.6 billion (0.7 percent at a monthly rate) in May, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Disposable personal income (DPI)-personal income less personal current taxes-increased $164.9…
Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $232.2 billion in 2025, according to preliminary statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Expenditures increased $76.8 billion, or 49.5…
Personal income decreased less than $0.1 billion (less than 0.1 percent at a monthly rate) in April, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Disposable personal income (DPI)-personal income less personal current ta…
Personal income increased $113.8 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in January, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)-personal income less personal current taxes-increased $219.9 b…
The value added of the outdoor recreation economy accounted for 2.4 percent ($696.7 billion) of current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP) for the nation in 2024. Across states and the District of Columbia, value added for outdoor recreation as a share of st…
Personal income increased $86.2 billion (0.3 percent at a monthly rate) in December, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)-personal income less personal current taxes-increased $75.7 bi…
Real personal consumption expenditures (PCE) by state increased in 48 states and the District of Columbia in 2024, with the percent change ranging from 5.3 percent in Massachusetts to -0.2 percent in Montana. Real PCE for the nation increased 2.9 percent in 2…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 2,273 counties, decreased in 809 counties, and was unchanged in 24 counties in 2024. County-level changes ranged from a 76.6 percent increase in Carter County, MT, to a 46.3 percent decline in Baca County, CO. Pe…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the third quarter of 2025. State-level changes ranged from a 6.5 percent increase in Kansas to a 0.4 percent increase in North Dakota. Personal income increased in al…
The U.S. net international investment position, the difference between U.S. residents' foreign financial assets and liabilities, was -$27.61 trillion at the end of the third quarter of 2025, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economi…
The U.S. current-account deficit narrowed by $22.8 billion, or 9.2 percent, to $226.4 billion in the third quarter of 2025, according to statistics released today by BEA. The revised second-quarter deficit was $249.2 billion. The third-quarter deficit was 2.9…
Real gross domestic product for Puerto Rico increased 3.0 percent in 2023 after decreasing 2.1 percent in 2022. The increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023 primarily reflected an increase in exports. Personal consumption expenditures, government…
Worldwide employment by U.S. multinational enterprises decreased 0.4 percent to 43.9 million workers in 2023 (preliminary) from 44.1 million workers in 2022 (revised), according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis on the opera…
The Marine Economy Satellite Account statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show the marine economy accounted for $511.0 billion, or 1.8 percent, of current-dollar U.S. gross domestic product in 2023, an increase from $482.4 billion…
The Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that arts and cultural economic activity, adjusted for inflation, increased 6.6 percent in 2023 after increasing 3.8 percent in 2022. By comparison, the…
Real personal consumption expenditures (PCE) by state increased in 48 states and the District of Columbia in 2023, with the percent change ranging from 7.3 percent in Maine to -0.6 percent in Alabama. Real PCE for the nation increased 2.5 percent in 2023. Ful…
In 2023, real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 2,357 counties, decreased in 734 counties, and was unchanged in 23 counties. The percent change in real GDP ranged from 125.8 percent in Throckmorton County, TX, to -39.6 percent in Lincoln County, WA. F…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands increased 16.7 percent in 2022 and 5.1 percent in 2021 after decreasing 29.1 percent in 2020. The growth in real GDP from 2021 to 2022 reflected increases in exports, gover…
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released statistics today measuring the outdoor recreation economy for the nation, all 50 states, and the District of Columbia. The new U.S. data show that the value added of the outdoor recreation economy accounted for 2.…
In 2023, personal income, in current dollars, increased in 2,814 counties, decreased in 295, and was unchanged in five counties in 2023. Personal income increased 6.0 percent in the metropolitan portion of the United States and 4.7 percent in the nonmetropoli…
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2023. The percent change ranged from 8.1 percent in Florida to 4.7 percent in Iowa. Nationally, current-dollar PCE increased 6.4 percent in 2023 after increasin…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) for the U.S. Virgin Islands decreased 1.3 percent in 2022 after increasing 3.7 percent in 2021. The decrease in real GDP reflected declines in exports, private fixed investment, government spending, and personal consumption e…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) for Guam increased 5.1 percent in 2022 after increasing 2.1 percent in 2021. The increase in real GDP reflected increases in exports, private fixed investment, government spending, and personal consumption expenditures. Impor…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 44 states and the District of Columbia in the second quarter of 2023, with the percent change ranging from 8.7 percent in Wyoming to -1.9 percent in Vermont. Full Text
In the second quarter, the value added of private goods-producing industries increased 7.7 percent, private services-producing industries increased 1.0 percent, and government increased 1.0 percent. Overall, 13 of 22 industry groups contributed to the 2.1 per…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) for American Samoa increased 1.8 percent in 2022 after decreasing 0.8 percent in 2021. The increase in real GDP reflected increases in government spending and exports. Personal consumption expenditures, private fixed investme…
Personal income, in current dollars, increased in 49 states and the District of Columbia in the second quarter of 2023, with the percent change ranging from 6.1 percent in New York and the District of Columbia to -2.7 percent in Maine. Full Text
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 2,404 counties, decreased in 691 counties, and was unchanged in 17 counties in 2021. The percent change in real GDP ranged from 81.8 percent in Coke County, TX, to -34.8 percent in Chouteau County, MT. Full Text
Today, the U.S Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released official statistics of real state personal consumption expenditures (PCE) for the first time. Real PCE decreased 3.8 percent in 2020 for the nation. Across states, the percent change ranged from 2.2 pe…
The estimates of GDP for the CNMI show that real GDP-GDP adjusted to remove price changes-decreased 11.2 percent in 2019 after decreasing 19.3 percent in 2018. This release also includes the results of a comprehensive update of the territorial economic accoun…
Real state personal income grew 2.4 percent in 2019 after increasing 3.1 percent in 2018, according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Real state personal income is a state's current-dollar personal income adjusted by the st…
State personal income increased 3.8 percent at an annual rate in the third quarter of 2019, a deceleration from the 4.4 percent increase in the second quarter. The percent change in personal income across all states ranged from 15.2 percent in South Dakota to…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 2,375 counties, decreased in 717, and was unchanged in 21 in 2018, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The percentage change in real GDP ranged from 86.5 percent i…
The estimates of GDP for the CNMI show that real GDP-GDP adjusted to remove price changes-decreased 19.6 percent in 2018 after increasing 25.5 percent in 2017 (see Table 1.3). For comparison, real GDP for the United States (excluding the territories) increase…
The estimates of GDP for the USVI show that real GDP - GDP adjusted to remove price changes - decreased 1.7 percent in 2017 after increasing 0.9 percent in 2016. For comparison, real GDP for the United States (excluding the territories) increased 2.2 percent…
In 2017, the U.S. direct investment abroad position increased to $6,013.3 billion and the foreign direct investment in the United States position increased to $4,025.5 billion, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The inc…
Real spending (output) on travel and tourism accelerated in the third quarter of 2017, growing at an annual rate of 6.6 percent after increasing 6.0 percent (revised) in the second quarter, according to new statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analys…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 267 out of 382 metropolitan areas in 2016. Real GDP by metropolitan area growth ranged from 8.1 percent in Lake Charles, LA and Bend-Redmond, OR to -13.3 percent in Odessa, TX. Real GDP for U.S. metropolitan area…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today released its 2007 Benchmark Input-Output (I-O) Account of the U.S. Economy. This widely used account--which provided the foundation for BEA's 2013 comprehensive revision of its gross domestic product (GDP) statistic…
U.S. multinational companies: U.S. and foreign operations: Worldwide employment by U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) increased 1.5 percent in 2011 to 34.5 million workers, with the increase primarily reflecting increases abroad. Employment in the United Sta…
