Download US GDP Growth

Recent Growth Rate of US GDP
Since the Great Recession
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• United States GDP Growth Rate
• The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States
– expanded 2.50 percent in the first quarter of 2013 over the previous quarter.
(Bureau of Economic Analysis)
– Historically, from 1947 until 2013, US GDP Growth Rate averaged 3.23
• all time high of 17.20 March of 1950
• record low of -10.40 Percent in March of 1958.
– Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, leasing, health care, social assistance,
professional, business and educational services account for more than 40
percent of GDP.
– Retail and wholesale trade creates another 12 percent of the wealth.
– Government related services fuel 13 percent of GDP.
– Utilities, transportation and warehousing and information 10 percent of the
GDP.
– Manufacturing, mining, and construction 17 percent of the output.
– Agriculture 1.5 percent of the GDP, yet due to use of advance technologies,
the United States is a net exporter of food.
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US GDP Growth Rate
Since the Great Recession
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